inoppressive
inoppressive adjective: not oppressive or burdensome.
Adjective
inoppressive (comparative more inoppressive, superlative most inoppressive)
- Not oppressive or burdensome.
- The truth appears to be, that many of the liturgies imposed for civil and religious objects were cheerfully performed in a sort of municipal duty which entailed a certain inoppressive degree of outlay […]1846, William Torrens McCullagh Torrens, The industrial history of free nations
Forms of inoppressive
| comparative | more inoppressive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most inoppressive |
Origin of inoppressive
From in- + oppressive.
Words that rhyme with inoppressive
- incessive
- progressive
- aggressive
- ingressive
- oppressive
- depressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- impressive
- obsessive
- possessive
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- recessive
- successive
- accessive
- caressive
- concessive
- degressive
- digressive
- double possessive
- passive-aggressive
- pressive
- regressive
- retrogressive
- transgressive
- abessive
- addressive
- adessive
- alloaggressive
- allosuppressive
- antessive
- antidepressive
- antiexpressive
- antioppressive
- antiprogressive
- antirepressive
- anxiodepressive
- atheroprogressive
- atherosuppressive
- autogressive
- autoregressive
- autorepressive
- brogressive
- cardiodepressive
- cardiosuppressive
- compressive
- concrescive
- confessive
- congressive
- corepressive
- crescive
- decompressive
- derepressive
- dispossessive
- effervescive
- excessive
- exessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
Questions about inoppressive
- What does inoppressive mean?
- Inoppressive means not oppressive or burdensome.
- What part of speech is inoppressive?
- Inoppressive is an adjective.
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