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# oppressive

«oppressive» in Mova's school dictionary: **Cruel and unfair, keeping people down and taking away…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (oppressive, more oppressive, most oppressive)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cruel and unfair, keeping people down and taking away their freedom: an oppressive ruler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressive/#m1)

2) Of weather: hot, heavy and airless, making you feel uncomfortable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressive/#m2)

3) Making you feel worried, sad or weighed down: an oppressive silence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressive/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

History and citizenship: oppressive kings, laws and governments; people fighting for freedom. Science and geography: oppressive heat before a thunderstorm. Stories: an oppressive silence in the Wild Wood.

### examples

- The people rose up against the oppressive king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressive/#x1)
- The heat was oppressive before the storm broke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressive/#x2)
- Mole felt the oppressive silence of the Wild Wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressive/#x3)
- Slavery was an oppressive and cruel system. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressive/#x4)
- The air in the attic was hot and oppressive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressive/#x5)
- An oppressive feeling of dread filled the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressive/#x6)
- Here there was bitter cold and snow-storms, while in Spain there was burning sunshine and oppressive heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressive/#x7)

### note

Verb: oppress (to treat cruelly). Noun: oppression; person: oppressor. Double p, double s.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oppressive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oppressive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.