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oppressive 音标拼音: [əpr'ɛsɪv] a. 压制性的,压迫的,沉重的 压制性的,压迫的,沈重的 oppressive adj 1: weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; " the atmosphere was oppressive"; " oppressive sorrows" 2: marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; " the oppressive government"; " oppressive laws"; " a tyrannical parent"; " tyrannous disregard of human rights" [ synonym: { oppressive}, { tyrannical}, { tyrannous}] Oppressive \ Op* press" ive\, a. [ Cf. F. oppressif.] 1. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; creating a sense of heavy burden; as, oppressive grief or woe; oppressive heat or humidity; an oppressive workload. [ 1913 Webster PJC] To ease the soul of one oppressive weight. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Op* press" ive* ly}, adv. -- { Op* press" ive* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 129 Moby Thesaurus words for " oppressive": Herculean, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, agonizing, airless, annoying, arbitrary, arduous, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, backbreaking, besetting, black, bleak, bossy, bothersome, breathless, breezeless, brutal, burdensome, close, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, demanding, depressant, depressing, depressive, despotic, dictatorial, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, dolorous, domineering, down, effortful, encumbering, exacting, exhausting, exigent, feudal, forced, grievous, grinding, grueling, hampering, hard- earned, hard- fought, harrowing, harsh, heavy, hefty, high- handed, humid, ill- ventilated, impedimental, impeding, impeditive, imperative, imperial, imperious, incumbent, intolerable, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, lordly, lumpish, magisterial, magistral, massive, masterful, miserable, monocratic, muggy, onerous, operose, overbearing, overburdensome, overpowering, overruling, overwhelming, painful, peremptory, plaguey, punishing, racking, repressive, severe, somber, sticky, stifling, strained, strenuous, strict, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, superincumbent, suppressive, taxing, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, tyrannical, tyrannous, unbearable, uncomfortable, unendurable, unvented, unventilated, unwieldy, uphill, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weighty, windless, wretched
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