Synonyms Dictionary
3. depress, grieve, aggrieve, lie heavily upon, drag down, weigh heavy on; afflict, pain, anguish, break one's heart, pierce one's heart; torment, desolate, crush, embitter; sadden, deject, dishearten, discourage, dispirit, dash, take the heart out of. oppression, n. 1. persecution, despotism, tyranny, fascism; iron hand, iron fist, heavy hand, high hand; compulsion, coercion, subjugation, enslavement; harassment, dogging, hounding, tormenting; cruelty, severity, harshness, hardness; ruthlessness, mercilessness, pitilessness, hard-heartedness.
2. charge, pressure, strain, drag, drain, tax; burden, Archaic, burthen, cross, encumbrance, cumbrance, trouble, vexation; load, weight, millstone, albatross.
3. hardship, misery, suffering, unhappiness, infelicity, wretchedness; bitterness, anguish, agony, melancholy, sadness; dejection, downheartedness, dejectedness, discouragement, disheartening; depression, affliction, sorrow, grief, woe.
4. heartache, desolation, despair, distress, grievance; torture, rack, torment, passion, dolor, ache, throe, pang; trial, tribulation, bitter pill, thorn in the side, crown of thorns. oppressive, adj. 1. burdensome, onerous, cumbersome; laborious, toilsome, arduous, operose, wearisome; grinding, wearing, exhausting, racking, trying; unbearable, unsufferable, unendurable, intolerable.
2. tyrannical, despotic, draconian, inquisitorial; overbearing, overpowering, overwhelming, domineering, high-handed, iron-fisted; harsh, cruel, crushing, heavy, brutal; ruthless, merciless, pitiless; relentless, remorseless, unrelenting, implacable, inexorable; hard, severe, stiff, rigid, rough.
3. discomforting, uncomfortable, stuffy, suffocating; close, stifling, airless, breathless, unventilated, windowless; breezeless, windless, sultry, sweltering, hot.
4. distressing, grievous, painful, afflictive, baleful; depressing, dispiriting, disheartening, discouraging; sorrowful, dolorous, miserable, mournful, sad, lugubrious; wretched, woeful, dire, grim, harrowing. opprobrious, adj. 1. disgraceful, dishonorable, shameful, degraded, inglorious; infamous, ignominious, odious, contemptible, despicable, detestable, sordid, degenerate, depraved, horrible, heinous, vicious, atrocious, flagitious; corrupt, reprehensible, unprincipled, debased, base, vile, evil, sinful, bad, wrong, low, arrant, nefarious, Obs. scelerous; mean, villainous, ignoble.
2. derogatory, discrediting, disapproving, disfavor-able, unfavorable, disapprobatory, disapprobative; censuring, reproachful, impeaching, inveighing, reproving, recriminating, reprehensive, reprobative, reprobating; defamatory, denigrating, vituperative, vilifying, vilipenditory; slanderous, libelous, calumnious, calumniatory. opprobrium, n. 1. disgrace, dishonor, shame, degradation, debasement, vitiation, ill repute, ingloriousness; ignominy, infamy, odium, obloquy, disrepute, notoriety.
2. discredit, disfavor, disapproval, disapprobation, disesteem, loss of face; belittlement, disparagement, deprecation, deflation, derogation, depreciation, devaluation. oppugn, v. 1. criticize, attack, assail, impugn, flay, light into, Inf. lace into, SI. rip or tear into; Inf pan, put down, Inf knock, shoot down, SI. blast, SI. let [s.o.] have it; haul or rake over the coals, SI. cut up or to pieces, pick apart, pick to pieces, Inf. pick holes in, nit-pick, find fault, carp, cavil.
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