oppressive (adj.)
- absolute
- absolutist
- absolutistic
- agonizing
- airless
- annoying
- arbitrary
- arduous
- aristocratic
- arrogant
- authoritarian
- authoritative
- autocratic
- backbreaking
- black
- bleak
- bossy
- bothersome
- breathless
- brutal
- burdensome
- close
- crushing
- cumbersome
- cumbrous
- demanding
- depressant
- depressing
- depressive
- despotic
- dictatorial
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dismal
- dispiriting
- distressing
- dolorous
- domineering
- down
- effortful
- exacting
- exhausting
- exigent
- feudal
- forced
- grievous
- grueling
- hard-fought
- harrowing
- harsh
- heavy
- hefty
- high-handed
- humid
- impeding
- imperative
- imperial
- imperious
- incumbent
- intolerable
- irksome
- killing
- labored
- laborious
- lordly
- lumpish
- magisterial
- massive
- masterful
- miserable
- muggy
- onerous
- operose
- overbearing
- overpowering
- overwhelming
- painful
- peremptory
- plaguey
- punishing
- racking
- repressive
- severe
- somber
- sticky
- stifling
- strained
- strenuous
- strict
- stuffy
- suffocating
- sultry
- superincumbent
- suppressive
- taxing
- toilsome
- tough
- troublesome
- trying
- tyrannical
- tyrannous
- unbearable
- uncomfortable
- unendurable
- unvented
- unventilated
- unwieldy
- uphill
- vexatious
- wearing
- wearisome
- wearying
- weighty
- windless
- wretched
