oppression

The word “oppression” has 3 syllables: op-pres-sion

It's pronounced as /əˈprɛʃən/


What is synonym and antonym for oppression?

In the thesaurus, “oppression” has 60 synonyms and 45 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for oppression along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for oppression

  • agony
  • anguish
  • blue devils
  • blues
  • boredom
  • dejection
  • depression
  • desolation
  • despair
  • desperation
  • despond
  • despondence
  • despondency
  • disconsolateness
  • discouragement
  • disheartenment
  • dismalness
  • dispiritedness
  • distress
  • doldrums
  • dolefulness
  • dolor
  • downheartedness
  • drear
  • dreariness
  • dumps
  • ennui
  • forlornness
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • glumness
  • grief
  • heartsickness
  • hopelessness
  • joylessness
  • melancholia
  • melancholy
  • miserableness
  • misery
  • moodiness
  • mopes
  • morbidness
  • moroseness
  • morosity
  • mournfulness
  • mourning
  • pain
  • regret
  • rue
  • sadness
  • self-despair
  • self-pity
  • somberness
  • sorrow
  • sorrowfulness
  • tedium
  • unhappiness
  • woe
  • woefulness
  • wretchedness

Antonyms for oppression

Meanings of oppression

  • noun
    1. The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
    2. The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
    3. A feeling of being oppressed.

Example Sentences

  • Generations lived under the weight of oppression.
  • They protested against the government's oppression of free speech.
  • His novel tells a story of survival and oppression.
  • The movement’s goal is to end systemic oppression.
  • Many fled their homeland to escape oppression and violence.

On this page you'll find 105 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to oppression, such as: agony, anguish, bliss, blissfulness, blue devils, blues, boredom.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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Caesarism

  • Big Brother
  • Big Brotherism
  • Communism
  • Nazism
  • absolutism
  • autarchy
  • authoritarianism
  • autocracy
  • czarism
  • despotism
  • dictatorship
  • domination
  • fascism
  • monarchism
  • monarchy
  • monocracy
  • oppression
  • totalism
  • totalitarianism
  • tsarism
  • tyranny
  • tzarism

sadness

  • agony
  • anguish
  • blahs
  • bleakness
  • blue devils
  • blue funk
  • blues
  • boredom
  • broken heart
  • bummer
  • cheerlessness
  • dejection
  • depression
  • desolation
  • despair
  • desperation
  • despond
  • despondence
  • despondency
  • disconsolateness
  • discouragement
  • disheartenment
  • dismalness
  • dismals
  • dispiritedness
  • distress
  • doldrums
  • dolefulness
  • dolor
  • downcastness
  • downer
  • downheartedness
  • drear
  • dreariness
  • dumps
  • dysphoria
  • ennui
  • forlornness
  • funk
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • glumness
  • grief
  • grieving
  • heartache
  • heartbreak
  • heartsickness
  • heavy heart
  • hopelessness
  • joylessness
  • letdown
  • listlessness
  • melancholia
  • melancholy
  • miserableness
  • misery
  • moodiness
  • mopes
  • morbidness
  • moroseness
  • morosity
  • mournfulness
  • mourning
  • oppression
  • pain
  • poignancy
  • regret
  • rue
  • self-despair
  • self-pity
  • somberness
  • sorrow
  • sorrowfulness
  • tedium
  • the blues
  • the dumps
  • tribulation
  • unhappiness
  • woe
  • woefulness
  • wretchedness

bafflement

  • abashment
  • ado
  • adverse fate
  • adversity
  • aggravation
  • agitation
  • annoyance
  • anxiety
  • bamboozlement
  • befuddlement
  • bemusement
  • bewilderedness
  • bewilderment
  • blow
  • bother
  • care
  • chagrin
  • charge
  • commotion
  • complication
  • confusedness
  • confusion
  • crisis
  • daze
  • defeat
  • depression
  • despondency
  • discombobulation
  • discomfiture
  • discomfort
  • disconcertment
  • discontent
  • discouragement
  • disenchantment
  • disgruntlement
  • disillusion
  • disillusionment
  • dismay
  • disorientation
  • disquiet
  • dissatisfaction
  • distraction
  • distress
  • disturbance
  • dither
  • embarrassment
  • emergency
  • exigency
  • failure
  • flurry
  • fluster
  • fog
  • frustration
  • fuss
  • grievance
  • hangup
  • harassment
  • head-scratching
  • imbroglio
  • inconvenience
  • irritation
  • jam
  • lack of success
  • letdown
  • maze
  • mess
  • millstone
  • misery
  • mortification
  • muddle
  • mystification
  • nonsuccess
  • obfuscation
  • oppression
  • perplexity
  • perturbation
  • pickle
  • pinch
  • predicament
  • pressure
  • puzzle
  • puzzlement
  • quandary
  • ramification
  • regret
  • responsibility
  • scrape
  • setback
  • stew
  • strain
  • strait
  • stress
  • strife
  • struggle
  • stupefaction
  • stupor
  • surprise
  • tangle
  • the knocks
  • to-do
  • trouble
  • turmoil
  • unfulfillment
  • upset
  • vicissitude
  • weight
  • whirl
  • worry

querulousness

  • acidity
  • aggression
  • aggressiveness
  • annoyance
  • antagonism
  • anxiety
  • assaultiveness
  • aversion
  • bellicosity
  • belligerence
  • belligerency
  • biliousness
  • boredom
  • captiousness
  • chagrin
  • combativeness
  • complaint
  • contentiousness
  • crankiness
  • crossness
  • defiance
  • desolation
  • disagreeableness
  • disappointment
  • disapproval
  • discomfort
  • discontent
  • discouragement
  • disfavor
  • disgruntlement
  • disinclination
  • dislike
  • disliking
  • dismay
  • displeasure
  • disputatiousness
  • disquiet
  • disrelish
  • distaste
  • distress
  • ennui
  • envy
  • exasperation
  • feistiness
  • fierceness
  • fight
  • fractiousness
  • fretfulness
  • frustration
  • grouchiness
  • grumpiness
  • heartburn
  • hopelessness
  • hostility
  • huffiness
  • hyperaggressiveness
  • imperialism
  • indisposition
  • irascibility
  • irascibleness
  • irritability
  • irritableness
  • irritation
  • jingoism
  • lamentation
  • malcontent
  • malcontentment
  • militance
  • militancy
  • militantness
  • militarism
  • oppression
  • orneriness
  • peevishness
  • pettishness
  • petulance
  • pugnacity
  • quarrelsomeness
  • regret
  • resentment
  • rudeness
  • scrappiness
  • surliness
  • testiness
  • trouble
  • truculence
  • uneasiness
  • unfriendliness
  • unhappiness
  • waspishness
  • weariness
  • worry

yoke

  • articulate
  • associate
  • attach
  • bondage
  • bracket
  • buckle
  • burden
  • captivity
  • catenate
  • cement
  • chain
  • coalesce
  • combine
  • compound
  • concatenate
  • conjoin
  • conjugate
  • connect
  • cord
  • couple
  • coupling
  • dependance
  • dependence
  • dovetail
  • enchainment
  • enslavement
  • fasten
  • fix
  • fuse
  • harness
  • helotry
  • hitch
  • hook
  • imprisonment
  • incarceration
  • integrate
  • interconnect
  • interlink
  • interlock
  • intermesh
  • join
  • knot
  • ligament
  • ligature
  • link
  • nexus
  • oppression
  • peonage
  • secure
  • serfdom
  • service
  • servility
  • servitude
  • slavery
  • splice
  • strap
  • string
  • subjection
  • subjugation
  • tack
  • thraldom
  • thrall
  • thralldom
  • tie
  • unite
  • wed
  • weld
  • wire

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