1 synonym for Repressive

tyrannical, harsh, repressive, authoritarian, dictatorial, despotic, autocratic, severe, brutal, cruel, heavy-handed, iron-fisted, draconian, overbearing, domineering, imperious, stringent, suffocating, stifling, constraining, coercive, unjust, inhumane, ruthless, merciless, pitiless, relentless, unrelenting, intolerable, unbearable, grinding, crushing, smothering, suppressive, enslaving, subjugating, tyrannous, totalitarian, absolute, arbitrary, high-handed, peremptory, rigid, inflexible, unyielding, exacting, demanding, rigorous [x]