Oppressive is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 377 anagrams from letters in oppressive (eeiopprssv).
1620-30; Medieval Latin oppresīvus, equivalent to oppress(us) (see oppress) + -īvus -ive
At this point the hot, oppressive cloud-cover was beginning to part, and the moon was rising high above the desert.
And of course there is the truly bad touch that is humiliating, oppressive and often painful.
There the flush and bloom of newness were oppressive to the right-minded.
His wristbands and collar were oppressive; his voice and manner were oppressive.
Demographic changes are making that community less dogmatic, even through the Castro regime remains an oppressive dictatorship.
Not a sound disturbed the oppressive quiet, not the quiver of a twig.
If formed on equal and just principles, it can not be oppressive.
Starting today, an Internet user in an oppressive country can swap online identities with someone in the West.
The day was sultry, and the heat, even in the dense shade of the jungle, oppressive.
In other words, markets were impersonal, but that was good, because sometimes personal ties were cruel and oppressive.
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