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Oppressive vs Overmastering - What's the difference?

oppressive | overmastering |

As adjectives the difference between oppressive and overmastering

is that oppressive is burdensome or difficult to bear while overmastering is which overmasters; dominating, oppressive, conquering.

As a verb overmastering is

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oppressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Burdensome or difficult to bear.
    • The oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company.
  • Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
    • The oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers.
  • Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming
    • Will the oppressive heat of summer never end?

    Synonyms

    * (weather) humid, close

    overmastering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Which overmasters; dominating, oppressive, conquering.
  • *2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles :
  • *:Yet from my very earliest consciousness I sensed with savage unswerving certainty that other people were not seized by the same rapacious greed, insatiable hunger, overmastering desire, shivering lust and terrible, hurting need that had me in its grip almost every hour of every day.