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  • English Word Oppression Definition A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
  • English Word Oppression Definition Ravishment; rape.
  • English Word Oppressive Definition Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.
  • English Word Oppressive Definition Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands.
  • English Word Oppressive Definition Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe.
  • English Word Oppressor Definition One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.
  • English Word Oppressure Definition Oppression.
  • English Word Opprobrious Definition Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language.
  • English Word Opprobrious Definition Infamous; despised; rendered hateful; as, an opprobrious name.
  • English Word Opprobrium Definition Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language.
  • English Word Opprobry Definition Opprobrium.
  • English Word Oppugn Definition To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist.
  • English Word Oppugnancy Definition The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance.
  • English Word Oppugnant Definition Tending to awaken hostility; hostile; opposing; warring.
  • English Word Oppugnant Definition An opponent.
  • English Word Oppugnation Definition Opposition.
  • English Word Oppugned Definition of Oppugn
  • English Word Oppugner Definition One who opposes or attacks; that which opposes.
  • English Word Oppugning Definition of Oppugn
  • English Word Opsimathy Definition Education late in life.
  • English Word Opsiometer Definition An instrument for measuring the limits of distincts vision in different individuals, and thus determiming the proper focal length of a lens for correcting imperfect sight.
  • English Word Opsonation Definition A catering; a buying of provisions.
  • English Word Optable Definition That may be chosen; desirable.
  • English Word Optate Definition To choose; to wish for; to desire.
  • English Word Optation Definition The act of optating; a wish.
  • English Word Optative Definition Expressing desire or wish.
  • English Word Optative Definition Something to be desired.
  • English Word Optative Definition The optative mood; also, a verb in the optative mood.
  • English Word Optatively Definition In an optative manner; with the expression of desire.
  • English Word Optic Definition The organ of sight; an eye.