Difference between Oppressive and Tyrannical

OPPRESSIVE vs TYRANNICAL: ADJECTIVE

Of or relating to or associated with or resembling a dictatorship
Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
Of or relating to a tyrant or tyranny.
Characteristic of a tyrant or tyranny; despotic and oppressive: : dictatorial.
Of, or relating to tyranny or a tyrant.
Despotic, oppressive or authoritarian.

Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe: as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service.
Given or inclined to oppression; tyrannical: as, an oppressive government.
Heavy; overpowering; overwhelming; burdensome; causing discomfort or uneasiness: as, oppressive grief or woe.

Having absolute sovereignty
Synonyms Domineering, severe, oppressive, galling, grinding. See despotism.
Pertaining to or characteristic of a tyrant; unjustly severe in operation; oppressive: as, a tyrannical government; tyrannical actions.
Having the character of a tyrant; acting like a tyrant; despotic in rule or procedure; arbitrary; imperious; as, a tyrannical master.

Burdensome, Onerous, Suffocating, Cruel, Brutal, Coercive, Oppressed, Iniquitous, Unjust, Despotic, Repressive, Heavy, Domineering, Tyrannous, Tyrannical

Atrocious, Brutal, Arbitrary, Bossy, Totalitarian, Tyrant, Undemocratic, Tyrannic, Authoritarian, Autocratic, Domineering, Tyrannous, Oppressive, Dictatorial, Despotic

Burdensome, Onerous, Suffocating, Cruel, Brutal, Coercive, Oppressed, Iniquitous, Unjust, Despotic, Repressive, Heavy, Domineering, Tyrannous, Tyrannical

Atrocious, Brutal, Arbitrary, Bossy, Totalitarian, Tyrant, Undemocratic, Tyrannic, Authoritarian, Autocratic, Domineering, Tyrannous, Oppressive, Dictatorial, Despotic

Devil led to an oppressive atmosphere in Germany.
We do not tolerate oppressive attitudes and language.
State exercised its oppressive power over the citizens.
When the oppressive darts of sadness, darkness, doubt.
He gazed back at her, hot and oppressive.
OVERBEARING, OPPRESSIVE, OR TYRANNICAL CONDUCTMembers of the department shall not be overbearing, oppressive, or tyrannical in their relations with members of the community.
Brutal, oppressive, and vicious heads of state living lavishly, while their citizens live in squalor under an oppressive regime that takes and takes.
God then rescues the Israelites from both the oppressive Egyptian humans and their oppressive Egyptian gods.
We have to make sure that our exchanges do not reproduce oppressive power dynamics, but every challenge is not oppressive.
He sees the Brazilian government as an example of an oppressive state using theatre to propagate its oppressive system.

Executive Branch from devolving into a tyrannical body.
He needed tyrannical specie in a egg tursu.
God a license to be coercive and tyrannical.
Mendoza and Michael Tylo as the tyrannical Alcalde.
There have been natural disasters and tyrannical leaders.
OVERBEARING, OPPRESSIVE, OR TYRANNICAL CONDUCTMembers of the department shall not be overbearing, oppressive, or tyrannical in their relations with members of the community.
ERADICATE TYRANNICAL AND CORRUPT OFFICIALS Tyrannical and corrupt officials are harmful elements of the nation, who harass and oppress the people.
Montesquieu, tyrannical laws may be made that they may be executedin a tyrannical manner.
They do not care if the government is tyrannical as long as it's tyrannical government.
If the law is tyrannical then the police are tyrannical.