stifling
[adjective]
Synonyms: smothering, smothery, smudgy, suffocating, suffocative, stuffy, airless, breathless, close, stivy, sultry
[noun]
Synonyms: repression, choking, extinguishment, quashing, quenching, smothering, squashing, squelching, strangling, suppression

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Related Words: oppressive, overpowering, unbearable, unendurable

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

stif‧ling /ˈstaɪflɪŋ/ adjective

1. a room or weather that is stifling is very hot and uncomfortable, so that it seems difficult to breathe:
a stifling, crowded train
the stifling heat of the tropics

2. a situation that is stifling stops you from developing your own ideas and character:
an emotionally stifling relationship

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