Synonyms of oppressive

1 Syllable

drear, cruel, bleak, ter, mean, harsh, tough, strict, trying

2 Syllables

sweltry, carking, strictest, muggier, dismal, bossy, brutal, grinding, unjust, drearier, dragger, dreary, cheerless, airless, sultry, humid, clunker, let-down, bonder, weighty, somber, bossier, nazi, muggy, heavy, hefty, grievous, taxing, sultrier, stricter, gloomy

3 Syllables

demanding, sweltering, rigorous, unaired, funereal, onerous, headache, exigent, confining, despotic, fascistic, unhappiest, backbreaker, effortful, severest, overcast, severer, unhappy, heightened, draconian, depressing, heart-rending, crack-the-whip, high-handed, imperious, severe, backbreaking, exacting, inhuman, unhappier, galumphing, ponderous

4 Syllables

burdensome, troublesome, tiresome, overtaxing, tyrannical, depressive, drearisome, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, claustrophobic, unbearable, dirgelike, boresome, acherontic, dictative, iron-handed, high-and-mighty, overbearing, dictatorial, ironhanded, heavy-handed, totalistic, one-party, infestive, cumbersome

5 Syllables

insupportable, unendurable, superincumbent, unsupportable, unalleviated, unmitigated, unsufferable, enervative, undemocratic, paternalistic, totalitarian