OPPRESSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oppressed mean? 

• OPPRESSED (adjective)
  The adjective OPPRESSED has 1 sense:

1. burdened psychologically or mentally

  Familiarity information: OPPRESSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPPRESSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Burdened psychologically or mentally

Synonyms:

laden; oppressed

Context example:

oppressed by a sense of failure

Similar:

burdened (bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities)

 Context examples 

His tender compassion towards oppressed worth can go no farther.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He was oppressed by a sense of failure.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“You shall not be oppressed by the receipt of favours, Miss Trotwood. You may pay for him, if you like. We won't be hard about terms, but you shall pay if you will.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Elizabeth lifted up her eyes in amazement, but was too much oppressed to make any reply.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Oppressed by the recollection of my various misfortunes, I now swallowed double my usual quantity and soon slept profoundly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He oppressed the weak, but he respected the strong.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As for myself, I was oppressed with nightmare.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was oppressed by the weight and the torment of this thing called life, and still more was he oppressed by the fear of death.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He did not know why, but he felt oppressed by the vague sense of impending calamity.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

So might our fame have gone down together for all time, and you be numbered with Sir Percival or Sir Galahad, or all the other rescuers of oppressed ladies.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)