Oppressive vs Oppression - What's the difference?
oppressive | oppression |
Burdensome or difficult to bear.
Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
* (Sir Walter Raleigh)
The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
A feeling of being oppressed.
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As an adjective oppressive
is burdensome or difficult to bear.As a noun oppression is
the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.oppressive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company.
- The oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers.
- Will the oppressive heat of summer never end?
Synonyms
* (weather) humid, closeoppression
English
Noun
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions , imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}