1. burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws. 2. causing discomfort by being excessive, intense, elaborate, etc.: oppressive heat. 3. distressing or grievous: oppressive sorrows.
The suffix of "oppressive" is "-ive."
The suffix for oppressive is -ive.
My father is too oppressive. My family is very oppressive. There's 2 of them.
Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law., Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands., Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe.
The heat was oppressive.
No, oppressive is an adjective. The corresponding noun is oppression.Someone who is oppressive is an oppressor.
The new leader was oppressive.The employees decided to go on strike until the oppressive manager was sacked.Oppressive behaviour is not acceptable in modern society.
1. burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws. 2. causing discomfort by being excessive, intense, elaborate, etc.: oppressive heat. 3. distressing or grievous: oppressive sorrows.
The heat near the kiln was oppressive and the workers needed to get away from it occasionally.
No, the word oppressive is an adjective, a word that describes a noun: an oppressive atmosphere.The verb is to oppress: A government can oppress its people only so long before they rebel.
Oppressive
cruel or harsh without just cause The colonists rebeled against oppressive taxation.