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Adjective [English]

IPA: /əˈpɹɛs.ɪv/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-oppressive.wav Forms: more oppressive [comparative], most oppressive [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛsɪv Etymology: From oppress + -ive. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|oppress|ive}} oppress + -ive Head templates: {{en-adj}} oppressive (comparative more oppressive, superlative most oppressive)
  1. Burdensome or difficult to bear. Translations (burdensome or difficult to bear): ἀχθεινός (akhtheinós) (Ancient Greek), потискащ (potiskašt) (Bulgarian), угнетяващ (ugnetjavašt) (Bulgarian), raskas (Finnish), oppressif (French), да́вящий (dávjaščij) (Russian), opresivo (Spanish)
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  2. Tyrannical or exercising unjust power. Synonyms: bossy, arrogant Translations (tyrannical or exercising unjust power): тираничен (tiraničen) (Bulgarian), opressiu (Catalan), sortava (Finnish), sorto- (Finnish), oppressif (French), oppressiv (German), unterdrückend (German), anfhorlannach (Irish), tíoránta (Irish), opressivo (Portuguese), opressor (Portuguese), oprimente (Portuguese), угнета́ющий (ugnetájuščij) (Russian), opresivo; tiranico (Spanish), mapang-api (Tagalog), mapanghamak (Tagalog), áp chế (Vietnamese)
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  3. Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming. Translations (overpowering or overwhelming): потискащ (potiskašt) (Bulgarian), tukahduttava (Finnish), oppressant (French), drückend (German), haitutu (english: refers to the atmosphere) (Maori), pōngerengere (Maori), да́вящий (dávjaščij) (Russian), гнету́щий (gnetúščij) (Russian)
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  4. (of the weather) Hot and humid. Synonyms: humid, close Translations (weather: hot and humid): спяко́тны (spjakótny) [masculine] (Belarusian), painostava (Finnish), haitutu (Maori)
    Sense id: en-oppressive-en-adj-w4efNbHn Disambiguation of 'weather: hot and humid': 0 0 0 100
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Synonyms: harsh

Adjective [French]

Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-oppressive.wav
Head templates: {{head|fr|adjective form}} oppressive
  1. feminine singular of oppressif Tags: feminine, form-of, singular Form of: oppressif
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Adjective [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|adjective form}} oppressive
  1. feminine plural of oppressivo Tags: feminine, form-of, plural Form of: oppressivo
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.