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oppressive synonyms

Trying to find another word for oppressive in English? No problem. Our thesaurus contains synonyms of oppressive in 40 different contexts. We have listed all the similar and related words for oppressive alphabetically.

  • arduous
  • exhausting
  • grueling
  • hard
  • laborious
  • punishing
  • taxing
  • toilsome
  • wearisome
  • austere
  • bare
  • blank
  • blighted
  • bombed
  • bulldozed
  • burned
  • chilly
  • cleared
  • cold
  • deforested
  • barbarous
  • bloodthirsty
  • callous
  • ferocious
  • gruff
  • hard
  • harsh
  • heartless
  • impolite
  • inhuman
  • insensitive
  • carking
  • crushing
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • disturbing
  • exacting
  • exigent
  • heavy
  • irksome
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • bounding
  • detaining
  • enclosing
  • imprisoning
  • restraining
  • atrocious
  • barbarous
  • bestial
  • bitter
  • bloodthirsty
  • brutal
  • brutish
  • callous
  • cold-blooded
  • degenerate
  • demoniac
  • ambitious
  • backbreaker
  • bothersome
  • clamorous
  • critical
  • dictatorial
  • difficult
  • exacting
  • exhausting
  • exigent
  • fussy
  • black
  • bleak
  • daunting
  • dejecting
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • dispiriting
  • distressing
  • dreary
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • atrocious
  • bleak
  • depressing
  • dismal
  • dispiriting
  • distressing
  • doleful
  • dreary
  • foreboding
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • absolute
  • authoritarian
  • autocratic
  • oppressive
  • tyrannical
  • absolute
  • arbitrary
  • arrogant
  • autocratic
  • bossy
  • clamorous
  • crack-the-whip
  • despotic
  • dictative
  • doctrinaire
  • dogmatic
  • black
  • bleak
  • dampening
  • daunting
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • deterring
  • disadvantageous
  • disappointing
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • cast down
  • chill
  • crush
  • damp
  • dampen
  • dash
  • daunt
  • deject
  • demoralize
  • deter
  • discourage
  • afflictive
  • black
  • boring
  • cheerless
  • cloudy
  • dark
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • desolate
  • despondent
  • dim
  • cheerless
  • crushing
  • demoralizing
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • gloomy
  • joyless
  • melancholy
  • sad
  • saddening
  • burdensome
  • by the book
  • careful
  • critical
  • difficult
  • exigent
  • finicky
  • fussy
  • grievous
  • hard
  • harsh
  • acute
  • burning
  • clamant
  • clamorous
  • constraining
  • critical
  • crucial
  • crying
  • imperative
  • importunate
  • insistent
  • bleak
  • caliginous
  • cheerless
  • clouded
  • cloudy
  • crepuscular
  • desolate
  • dim
  • dismal
  • dreary
  • dull
  • afflicting
  • agonizing
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • calamitous
  • damaging
  • deplorable
  • dire
  • dismal
  • disquieting
  • distressing
  • bone-crushing
  • crumbling
  • crunching
  • crushing
  • disintegrating
  • eroding
  • granulating
  • grating
  • milling
  • powdering
  • pulverizing
  • acrid
  • asperous
  • astringent
  • bitter
  • bleak
  • cacophonous
  • caterwauling
  • clashing
  • coarse
  • cracked
  • craggy
  • annoyance
  • bane
  • bother
  • dilemma
  • frustration
  • hassle
  • hindrance
  • inconvenience
  • nuisance
  • pain in the neck
  • pest
  • abundant
  • ample
  • awkward
  • beefy
  • big
  • built
  • bulky
  • burdensome
  • chunky
  • considerable
  • copious
  • coercive
  • cruel
  • harsh
  • oppressive
  • severe
  • ample
  • awkward
  • beefy
  • brawny
  • burly
  • colossal
  • cumbersome
  • extensive
  • fat
  • forceful
  • heavy
  • barbaric
  • barbarous
  • bestial
  • brutal
  • cannibalistic
  • cold-blooded
  • cruel
  • devilish
  • diabolical
  • fell
  • ferocious
  • authoritarian
  • autocratic
  • bossy
  • dictatorial
  • imperious
  • oppressive
  • overbearing
  • tyrannical
  • close
  • greedy
  • mercenary
  • mingy
  • miserly
  • niggard
  • parsimonious
  • penny-pinching
  • penurious
  • rapacious
  • scrimpy
  • arduous
  • austere
  • backbreaking
  • burdensome
  • crushing
  • cumbersome
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • distressing
  • embittering
  • exacting
  • ascendant
  • autocratic
  • bossy
  • cavalier
  • cocky
  • despotic
  • dictatorial
  • disdainful
  • dogmatic
  • egotistic
  • haughty
  • backbreaking
  • bleak
  • brutal
  • burdensome
  • confining
  • cruel
  • demanding
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • despotic
  • dictatorial
  • astringent
  • austere
  • biting
  • caustic
  • close
  • cold
  • cruel
  • cutting
  • disapproving
  • dour
  • earnest
  • black
  • bleak
  • blue
  • caliginous
  • cloudy
  • dark
  • depressive
  • dim
  • dingy
  • dire
  • dismal
  • carking
  • crushing
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • disturbing
  • exacting
  • exigent
  • heavy
  • irksome
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • disturbing
  • enervating
  • exacting
  • exigent
  • grievous
  • heavy
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • punishing
  • brawny
  • cohesive
  • conditioned
  • dense
  • durable
  • fibrous
  • firm
  • fit
  • flinty
  • hard
  • hard as nails
  • alarming
  • annoying
  • arduous
  • burdensome
  • damaging
  • dangerous
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • disquieting
  • harassing
  • hard
  • authoritarian
  • autocratic
  • brutal
  • cruel
  • demanding
  • dictatorial
  • domineering
  • harsh
  • heavy-handed
  • ironhanded
  • mean
  • below the belt
  • biased
  • fixed
  • inequitable
  • influenced
  • low-down
  • one-sided
  • partial
  • partisan
  • prejudiced
  • shabby
  • burdensome
  • cumbersome
  • cumbrous
  • dense
  • fat
  • fleshy
  • hefty
  • massive
  • obese
  • overweight
  • ponderous

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