OPPRESSIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oppressively mean? 

• OPPRESSIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb OPPRESSIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in a heavy and oppressive way

  Familiarity information: OPPRESSIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPPRESSIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a heavy and oppressive way

Context example:

it was oppressively hot in the office

Pertainym:

oppressive (weighing heavily on the senses or spirit)

 Context examples 

It was a fortnight since Mrs. Bennet had been downstairs; but on this happy day she again took her seat at the head of her table, and in spirits oppressively high.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

On entering his room, I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)