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Main Entry: oppressive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overwhelming, repressive

Synonyms:

backbreaking, bleak, brutal, burdensome, confining, cruel, demanding, depressing, depressive, despotic, dictatorial, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, exacting, exigent, gloomy, grievous, grinding, harsh, headache, heavy, heavy-handed, hefty, inhuman, ironhanded, mean, onerous, overbearing, rough going, severe, somber, superincumbent, taxing, tough, troublesome, tyrannical, unjust, weighty

Antonyms:

calm, gentle, relieving
Main Entry: oppressive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hot and humid

Synonyms:

airless, close, heavy, muggy, overpowering, steam bath, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, sweat box, torrid

Antonyms:

cool, mild, temperate
Main Entry: black
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless

Synonyms:

atrocious, bleak, depressing, depressive, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, doleful, dreary, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, horrible, lugubrious, mournful, ominous, oppressive, sad, sinister, sombre, threatening

Antonyms:

hopeful, optimistic
Main Entry: bleak
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: depressing

Synonyms:

black, cheerless, comfortless, dark, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grim, hard, harsh, hopeless, joyless, lonely, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, unpromising

Antonyms:

cheerful, comforting, congenial, encouraging, nice, pleasant
Main Entry: bossy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: domineering

Synonyms:

authoritarian, commanding, controlling, despotic, dictatorial, high-handed, imperious, iron-handed, oppressive, overbearing, overpowering, pushy, strict, tyrannical
Main Entry: burdensome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: troublesome

Synonyms:

carking, crushing, demanding, difficult, disturbing, exacting, exigent, heavy*, irksome, onerous, oppressive, superincumbent, taxing, tough, trying, wearing, wearying, weighty

Antonyms:

aiding, helpful, helping, relieving, unburdensome
Main Entry: cheerless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: depressing, unhappy

Synonyms:

austere, black, bleak, blue, comfortless, dark, dejected, dejecting, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, dolorous, drab, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim, in the dumps, jarring, joyless, melancholy, miserable, mopey, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, sorrowful, sullen, tenebrific, uncomfortable, wintry, woebegone, woeful

Antonyms:

bright, cheerful, happy, uplifting
Main Entry: cumbersome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clumsy, awkward

Synonyms:

bulky, burdensome, clunker, clunking, clunky, cumbrous, embarrassing, galumphing, heavy, hefty, incommodious, inconvenient, leaden, massive, oppressive, ponderous, tiresome, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy, wearisome, weighty

Antonyms:

graceful
Main Entry: demanding
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: challenging, urgent

Synonyms:

ambitious, backbreaker, bothersome, clamorous, critical, dictatorial, difficult, exacting, exhausting, exigent, fussy, grievous, hard, imperious, importunate, insistent, nagging, onerous, oppressive, pressing, querulous, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, troublesome, trying, wearing, weighty

Antonyms:

easy, facile, trivial, unchallenging, undemanding
Main Entry: depressing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: discouraging, upsetting

Synonyms:

black, bleak, daunting, dejecting, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, dreary, funereal, gloomy, heartbreaking, hopeless, joyless, melancholic, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, saddening, somber

Antonyms:

cheering, encouraging, happy
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