Usually means: Imposing harsh and burdensome conditions.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. oppressive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oppressive: Merriam-Webster
  3. oppressive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oppressive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oppressive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oppressive: Vocabulary.com
  7. Oppressive, oppressive: Wordnik
  8. oppressive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. oppressive: Wiktionary
  10. oppressive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. oppressive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. oppressive: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Oppressive, oppressive: Dictionary.com
  14. oppressive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Oppressive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Oppressive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. oppressive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. oppressive: Rhymezone
  19. oppressive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. oppressive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. oppressive: FreeDictionary.org
  22. oppressive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. oppressive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. oppressive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. oppressive: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oppressive: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See oppressively as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Burdensome or difficult to bear.
adjective:  Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
adjective:  Weighing heavily on the spirit; being quite intense, excessive or overwhelming.
adjective:  (of the weather) Hot and humid.

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