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What is the adjective for oppression?

What's the adjective for oppression? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb oppress which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

oppressive
  1. Burdensome or difficult to bear.
  2. Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
  3. Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming
  4. Hot and humid of the weather.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. dictatorial, tyrannical, despotic, authoritarian, autocratic, domineering, imperious, overbearing, tyrannous, harsh, repressive, draconian, undemocratic, cruel, brutal, overweening, ruthless, coercive, inhuman, unjust, relentless, pitiless, merciless, crushing, overwhelming, exacting, punitive, unfair, hardhanded, mean, ironhanded, inexorable, demanding, exigent, high-handed, anti-democratic, iron-fisted, heavy-handed, bossy, severe, peremptory, authoritative, tyrannic, arbitrary, masterful, autocratical, strict, absolute, magisterial, totalitarian … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “The oppressive rule of the officials in the outlying provinces led to discontent.”
      “One finds exploited workers in certain countries where there are no laws protecting them from oppressive working conditions.”
      “The same oppressive atmosphere pervades the town of Soham.”
oppressional
  1. Exhibiting or relating to oppression.
oppressed
  1. Subject to oppression.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. subjugated, maltreated, abused, downtrodden, mistreated, tyrannised, tyrannized, persecuted, victimised, victimized, browbeaten, crushed, subject, misused, repressed, burdened, exploited, tormented, subdued, abject, disadvantaged, underprivileged, enslaved, suppressed, beleaguered, troubled, helpless, prostrate, subservient, beset, overloaded, plagued, distressed, destitute, underfoot, slave, fraught, henpecked, worried, ill-treated, ground down, have-not, under one's thumb, under the thumb, weighed down, a slave to, at one's feet, at one's mercy, harmed, neglected … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The hard-boiled hero's rapport with oppressed and marginalized people has a well-articulated rationale.”
oppressing
  1. present participle of oppress
  2. Synonyms:
      3. subjugating, tyrannising, tyrannizing, dominating, persecuting, maltreating, crushing, tormenting, subjecting, torturing, abusing, plaguing, harassing, enslaving, hegemonizing, wronging, harrying, hounding, coercing, besetting, exploiting, overthrowing, scourging, aggrieving, distressing, ruling, forcing, mastering, annoying, chastening, despotizing, encumbering, handicapping, outraging, pressing, riding, saddling, straining, taxing, trampling, vexing, worrying, controlling, ill-treating, keeping down, treating harshly, holding sway over, grinding down, tyrannizing over, ruling over … more
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