- oppressive - weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows"
Antonym: light (indirect, via heavy)
- oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous - marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"
Antonym: submissive (indirect, via domineering)