| Main Entry: | repressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restraining |
Synonyms: |
coercive, constraining, forbidding, governing, prohibiting, restrictive, suppressive |
| Main Entry: | prohibitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restrictive; beyond one's |
Synonyms: |
excessive, exorbitant, expensive, extortionate, financial means conditional, forbidding, high-priced, limiting, preposterous, preventing, prohibiting, proscriptive, repressive, restraining, sky-high, steep*, suppressive |
Antonyms: |
reasonable, unlimited, unrestrictive |
| Main Entry: | troublesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bothersome, worrisome |
Synonyms: |
alarming, annoying, arduous, burdensome, damaging, dangerous, demanding, difficult, disquieting, harassing, hard, heavy, importunate, inconvenient, infestive, intractable, irksome, irritating, laborious, mean, messy, murder, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestiferous, pestilential, problematic, refractory, repressive, rough, taxing, tiresome, tough, tricky, troublous, trying, ugly, ungovernable, unruly, uphill, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wicked, worrying |
Antonyms: |
easy, helpful, nice, useful |
| Main Entry: | tyrannical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despotic, oppressive |
Synonyms: |
authoritarian, autocratic, brutal, cruel, demanding, dictatorial, domineering, harsh, heavy-handed, ironhanded, mean, overbearing, repressive, ruthless, totalitarian, tough, unjust |
| Main Entry: | suppressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suppressing |
Synonyms: |
censoring, covering up, curbing, holding back, muffling, quelling, repressing, repressive, silencing, stifling, subduing, withholding |