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Synonyms for oppressive
The synonym for oppressive recorded in this bank is tyrannical, in the sense "marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for oppressive
- tyrannicaladjective, in the sense "marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for oppressive.
marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
The oppressive government.
The true synonym
tyrannical
Same sentence, swapped: The tyrannical government.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where oppressive stands in the sentence above.
- stifling
- dismal
- humid
Where oppressive turns up in the game
oppressive is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where oppressive is the trap
- exhaustingadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is draining, in the sense "having a debilitating effect", and oppressive is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play oppressive
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so oppressive reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from social life at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
oppressive is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.