Difference between Oppressive and Tyrannous

OPPRESSIVE vs TYRANNOUS: ADJECTIVE

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.

Of tyrannical character or quality; given to or marked by tyranny; harshly despotic.

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

Oligarchic, Feudal, Iniquitous, Fascistic, Undemocratic, Repressive, Rapacious, Imperialistic, Totalitarian, Dictatorial, Despotic, Tyrant, Domineering, Oppressive, Tyrannical

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

Oligarchic, Feudal, Iniquitous, Fascistic, Undemocratic, Repressive, Rapacious, Imperialistic, Totalitarian, Dictatorial, Despotic, Tyrant, Domineering, Oppressive, Tyrannical

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.

And Cicero says he was plaintive and persuasive when in need, but worthless and tyrannous when in power.
Aruru to create a being who might act as a rival to Gilgamesh, curb his strength, and dispute his tyrannous control.
Yet, the advent of popular suffrage presented dangers of a tyrannous democratic majority oppressing individuals belonging to a minority by infringing their civic liberties.
He believed that America should be reticent towards the creation of a Federal Government and avoid similar tyrannous actions imposed by the British Parliament.
HOLOCAUST USA whose integral web of roads is dominated by a tyrannous organization; a rebellion is in the works.
It is the impending judgment of the tyrannous rich that is primarily in his mind.
Some hold that their tyrannous control was abolished in Palestine by a decree of Julius Caesar recorded by Josephus.
Josephusaccuses Moses of being as tyrannous as Pharaoh and choosing Aaron for nepotistic reasons.
British rule made some particularly worried about a tyrannous government?