oppressed
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4.7
- adjective
- /əˈprɛst/
- Living in fear of persecution can leave individuals feeling oppressed and without hope.
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Watch on YouTubeIt doesn't tell me anything about our willingness to feel oppressed, but it tells me that if we do feel oppressed, we might act in such a way.
- It doesn't tell me anything about our willingness to feel oppressed, but it tells me that if we do feel oppressed, we might act in such a way.
- You can be a good person and be poor, be, you know, wretched oppressed.
Examples
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The peasants there are as oppressed as they were in the Middle Ages.
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If our brothers are oppressed, then we are oppressed.
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And we're the side of the oppressed, you know, in that story.
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No women anywhere in the world are as oppressed as the woman in Afghanistan right now.
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He also says at another point, oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
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So I'm double intersectionally oppressed with those two labels.
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Our hearts are always oppressed by the constriction of its enclosing walls.
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And as expressing in a seemingly hopeless world the hopes of the oppressed and the dispossessed.
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It's that they've they've got this genuine view that minorities have been hurt and oppressed in American Society, which by the way, is true.
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Many people feel oppressed by the constant demands of their jobs.
Synonyms
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2.9
Feeling very upset, worried, or hurt
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3.8
Feeling very weighed down by work, problems, or responsibilities
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7.0
Feeling very strong pain in the mind or body
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6.6
People who are treated badly by those with power
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4.5
Carrying heavy things or having serious worries that make you feel tired
Antonyms
How Oppressed
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4.2
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5.1
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2.9
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4.7
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3.8
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3.2
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1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oppressed comes from the Latin word opprimere, made of ob- meaning 'against' and premere meaning 'to press', and it is like the English words press and pressure. So to be oppressed is to feel pushed down or weighed down, which is why it now means a mental or emotional burden.