English → Latin
“oppressive” in Latin
gravisheavy; pregnant; troublesome, hardmolestustroublesome, irksome, grievous, annoying, tiresomemagnusgreat, large, big; (of things) vast, extensive, spacious (of physical size or quantity); great, grand, mighty, noble, lodūrushard; rough; harsh; hardy; vigorousacerbusharsh, bitter, unripe, sour, premature, not yet marriageable; sharp, severe, bitter (i.e., extremely painful); rough, viinīquusunjust, unfair; unequal, uneven; unfavourable, disadvantageoustaxōto feel, to touch sharply, to handle; to charge, to twit, to reproach, to censure; to rate, to appraise, to value, to es
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
oppressive
gravis (burdensome): molestus (troublesome): magnus (great): durus (hard): acerbus (bitter): iniquus (not equitable, unjust). Oppressive heat, calorum molestiae: oppressive taxes, tributa acerba: oppressive government, imperium acerbum, grave, iniquum; imperii acerbitas: to labor under an oppressive debt, aere alieno premi: to become oppressive, gravescere; ingravescere: so oppressive were the wrongs that, etc., tanta vis erat injuriarum, ut, etc.: this is an oppressive feeling, hoc valde me urit, pungit, mordet.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for oppressive?
- The usual Latin words for “oppressive” are gravis, molestus, magnus; also dūrus, acerbus, inīquus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.