Oppressive: Definition and part of speech

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Oppressive

  1. a. Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe.
  2. a. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.
  3. a. Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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