oppressive

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: The rebel regime in Rhodesia is not only defying the Crown and imposing an increasingly oppressive dictatorship.
• almost: Either way, the game has an intense and almost oppressive atmosphere.
• quite: So there's a lot of people within both these families trying to escape the quite oppressive family ethos that they're living under.
• too: I found this to be entirely too oppressive for my tastes.
• so: Putting is no so oppressive; last child was born on Saturday morning and I was at work the Friday night.
• often: Britain has a history of being a tolerant country where persecuted people have fled from often oppressive regimes.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

find: But he was soon to find the lifestyle oppressive, despite the creature comforts.

Modifies a noun

• regime: I wish to spread word of the oppressive regime in my homeland.
• dictatorship: There has not been a noticeable increase in the number of oppressive dictatorships around the world.
• ruler: Asia has had its full share of cruel oppressive rulers, in whose realms there was much of what the West today calls injustice.
• heat: To avoid the oppressive heat of the Summer, they often go to nearby cooler villages where they have second homes.
• ideology: The learning turn in education and training: liberatory paradigm or oppressive ideology?
• atmosphere: An oppressive atmosphere crowded in on the narrow, swaying cage around us.

Used with adjective complement

• become: But my mind was in a turmoil, and the nights became more oppressive than ever.
• seem: This was a small room around nine by twelve feet and seemed oppressive.
• feel: Tuesday 7th February 2006 A deadline could feel oppressive.
• find: I don't see it as a bad thing that people want to get away from a place that they find oppressive.
• appear: This first section of the cave appears very oppressive to some.
• remain: In much of the world states remain oppressive, secretive and violent.

Preposition: in

way: The current situation in South Africa is oppressive in some ways, but by no means all.