What does oppressive mean?
Definitions for oppressive
əˈprɛs ɪvop·pres·sive
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Princeton's WordNet
oppressiveadjective
weighing heavily on the senses or spirit
"the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows"
oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannousadjective
marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
"the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"
GCIDE
Oppressiveadjective
Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; creating a sense of heavy burden; as, oppressive grief or woe; oppressive heat or humidity; an oppressive workload.
Wiktionary
oppressiveadjective
Burdensome or difficult to bear.
The oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company.
oppressiveadjective
Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
The oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers.
oppressiveadjective
Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming
Will the oppressive heat of summer never end?
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Oppressiveadjective
Etymology: from oppress.
Alicia, reach thy friendly arm,
And help me to support that feeble frame,
That nodding totters with oppressive woe,
And sinks beneath its load. Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore.
ChatGPT
oppressive
Oppressive refers to being burdensome, harsh, or unfairly severe, often through the unjust exercise of authority or power. It entails a system, situation, or behavior that treats people cruelly or unfairly, especially by denying them their basic rights. In a broader sense, it can also represent something that is overwhelming or mentally, physically, or emotionally distressing.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of oppressive in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of oppressive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of oppressive in a Sentence
It's partly about breaking away from the conventional gallery model which is sort of a slightly oppressive white-cube space that could be in any place almost at any time and moving toward a series of galleries that are specific to their content, it's a departure from the sort of very forbidding gallery that we're used to.
C.S. Lewis said, 'Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerelyexercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.' Dr. Fauci has told us, 'We're doing this for your own good.' Hey, I pretty much know what is for my own good. Yes, I would take all the shots, I would do all that over, but for them to mandate the kids can't go to school, or I can't go to work, or you've got to fire them, is absolutely preposterous.
Islamic State wants to redefine feminism by characterizing Western society as oppressive towards women, they choose to highlight women to show that their ideology treats women fairly as equals in jihad.
This administration talks a lot about asylees and needing to protect individuals that are being persecuted, and I think of all the countries we see, at least in this hemisphere, except for maybe Venezuela, Cuba is probably the most oppressive government we have, so the question is why are they not allowing folks from Cuba to resettle in the U.S. like they are folks from Guatemala when the asylum claim from Cuba is likely greater.
One of the insights I took from this process was that the compliments we so frequently and often unconsciously bestow on girls can actually have a negative effect and even become a source of pain and disempowerment, while counterintuitive, compliments, especially the ones related to physical appearance like 'you're so cute; you're adorable,' were perceived as limiting and oppressive, making girls feel that the expectations on them were focused on their appearance and not on their abilities or what was inside.
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