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Adverb
▲
In an oppressive manner
harshly
brutally
severely
roughly
sternly
hard
stiffly
ill
hardly
tyrannically
restrictively
cruelly
mercilessly
savagely
heartlessly
pitilessly
inhumanly
callously
unmercifully
unkindly
unsympathetically
ruthlessly
brutishly
grimly
barbarously
hard-heartedly
viciously
sadistically
violently
strictly
more ❯
“The public power belongs to everyone and when majorities hijack it for sectarian purposes they act oppressively.”
Adverb
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Adverb for unbearably hot and humid
stuffily
stiflingly
sultrily
closely
muggily
airlessly
humidly
tropically
swelteringly
hotly
stickily
heavily
steamily
boilingly
torridly
fuggily
stalely
damply
sweatily
clammily
stagnantly
scorchingly
soupily
searingly
bakingly
breathlessly
dankly
soggily
warmly
muckily
more ❯
“In the oppressive heat of this closed space, he lost consciousness and fell into a trance.”
Adverb
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Adverb for inflicting harsh and authoritarian treatment
dictatorially
tyrannically
despotically
authoritarianly
autocratically
domineeringly
imperiously
overbearingly
tyrannously
harshly
repressively
draconianly
undemocratically
cruelly
brutally
overweeningly
ruthlessly
coercively
inhumanly
unjustly
relentlessly
pitilessly
mercilessly
crushingly
overwhelmingly
exactingly
punitively
unfairly
hardhandedly
meanly
ironhandedly
inexorably
demandingly
exigently
high-handedly
heavy-handedly
more ❯
“The oppressive rule of the officials in the outlying provinces led to discontent.”
Adverb
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Adverb for harsh and difficult to bear or endure
hardly
toughly
severely
harshly
onerously
tryingly
burdensomely
roughly
heavily
grimly
taxingly
grievously
excruciatingly
brutally
cruelly
ruggedly
stiffly
stressfully
bitterly
troublesomely
murderously
weightily
searingly
inhumanly
backbreakingly
distressingly
hardhandedly
worryingly
bleakly
troublingly
heftily
more ❯
“One finds exploited workers in certain countries where there are no laws protecting them from oppressive working conditions.”
Adverb
▲
Adverb for weighing heavily on the mind or spirits
overwhelmingly
overpoweringly
unbearably
burdensomely
crushingly
devastatingly
intolerably
grindingly
heavily
toweringly
uncomfortably
unendurably
“The same oppressive atmosphere pervades the town of Soham.”
Adverb
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Adverb for having a somber or dismal atmosphere or nature
dishearteningly
godforsakenly
sadly
unhappily
murkily
uninvitingly
lugubriously
tenebrously
hopelessly
melancholily
dispiritingly
saturninely
coldly
blackly
discouragingly
dolefully
disconsolately
despondently
bleakly
elegiacally
dismally
lonesomely
depressingly
sunlessly
gloomily
graylyUS
drearily
sombrelyUK
miserably
cheerlessly
darkly
desolately
wretchedly
somberlyUS
solemnly
grimly
funereally
comfortlessly
forlornly
drably
joylessly
morosely
sullenly
direly
glumly
morbidly
sepulchrally
lonelily
mournfully
depressedly
pessimistically
unpromisingly
dimly
greylyUK
cloudily
gravely
austerely
cynically
negatively
forebodingly
unfavourablyUK
fatalistically
unfavorablyUS
defeatistly
unfortunately
despairingly
troubledly
worryingly
harshly
ominously
bitterly
horridly
chillily
inauspiciously
unpropitiously
disadvantageously
portentously
depressively
more ❯
Adverb
▲
Adverb for strict or exacting in standards
strictly
harshly
rigidly
hardly
rigorously
severely
sternly
stringently
toughly
dourly
inflexibly
unbendingly
authoritarianly
draconianly
uncompromisingly
unyieldingly
disciplinarily
firmly
forbiddingly
illiberally
adamantly
grimly
pickily
uptightly
adamantinely
bullheadedly
determinedly
exactingly
fixedly
headstrongly
intractably
intransigently
invariably
obdurately
obstinately
pertinaciously
puritanically
relentlessly
resolutely
solidly
steadfastly
stubbornly
stuffily
undeviatingly
unrelentingly
unshakeably
unsparingly
unwaveringly
heavy-handedly
Adverb
▲
Adverb for too powerful or intense to be resisted
irresistibly
uncontrollably
compulsively
overpoweringly
compellingly
obsessively
overwhelmingly
irrepressibly
drivingly
forcefully
potently
ungovernably
inexorably
certainly
imperatively
surely
indomitably
invincibly
strongly
unconquerably
uncontainably
urgently
intensely
unbearably
powerfully
extremely
profoundly
consumingly
overbearingly
devastatingly
more ❯
Adverb
▲
Adverb for using or characterized by force or violence
aggressively
coercively
forcefully
threateningly
thuggishly
violently
forcibly
physically
Adverb
▲
Adverb for an environment that encourages rapid growth or development, especially in a stifling or intense way
delicately
exotically
fragilely
frailly
intensely
sensitively
stiflingly
daintily
Adverb
▲
Adverb for cramped and confined, so as to induce the fear of closed or tight spaces
claustrophobically
crampedly
limitedly
restrictedly
stiflingly
airlessly
narrowly
tightly
Adverb
▲
Adverb for in the manner of an overbearing father
paternalistically
condescendingly
patronisinglyUK
patronizinglyUS
dismissively
Adverb
▲
Adverb for to a total, utter or complete degree
unmitigatedly
categorically
absolutely
completely
outrightly
totally
unqualifiedly
definitely
thoroughly
utterly
consummately
purely
thoroughgoingly
unconditionally
unequivocally
austerely
downrightly
positively
profoundly
rankly
relentlessly
unadulteratedly
unambiguously
veritably
really
regularly
rigidly
sheerly
simply
starkly
unabatedly
unalloyedly
arrantly
fairly
grossly
intensely
perfectly
severely
unbendingly
deadly
flatly
blankly
bloomingly
bodaciously
cleanly
dreadfully
grimly
harshly
persistently
unbrokenly
undilutedly
unmixedly
unrelievedly
verily
Adverb
▲
Adverb for depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive
drearily
boringly
tediously
uninterestingly
monotonously
humdrumly
drably
flatly
tiresomely
wearisomely
pedestrianly
colorlesslyUS
colourlesslyUK
stalely
drily
slowly
unexcitingly
prosaically
ponderously
heavily
tiringly
leadenly
tamely
stodgily
jejunely
insipidly
stuffily
uninspiringly
commonplacely
lifelessly
oldly
blandly
aridly
monochromatically
dustily
vapidly
wearily
uneventfully
stupidly
banally
unremarkably
routinely
sterilely
quotidianly
unexceptionally
repetitively
featurelessly
bloodlessly
desolately
downcastly
damply
dispiritingly
rawly
sorrowfully
windily
wintrilyUS
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