Autocracy Synonyms and Antonyms

ô-tŏkrə-sē
A government in which a single leader or party exercises absolute control over all citizens and every aspect of their lives
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. autarchy
  2. absolutism
  3. dictatorship
  4. despotism
  5. tyranny
  6. absolute-monarchy
  7. totalitarian government
  8. czarism
  9. totalitarianism
  10. monocracy
  11. one-man rule
Antonyms:
  1. democracy
A political doctrine advocating the principle of absolute rule
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. absolutism
  2. authoritarianism
  3. despotism
  4. dictatorship
  5. totalitarianism
Absolute power, especially when exercised unjustly or cruelly
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. despotism
  2. dictatorship
  3. totalitarianism
  4. tyranny

Words Related to Autocracy

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Autocracy Sentence Examples

  • In some islands hereditary autocracy prevailed; in others the government was elective.

  • Paul III.s pontificate was further marked by important changes in the church, all of which confirmed the spiritual autocracy of Rome.

  • The supreme peril to the autocracy in Russia lay in the genuine grievances of the peasants, less political than economic, which had opened their minds to revolutionary propaganda.

  • He fought in the constitutionalist army against the Austrians at Rieti (7th of March 1821), and on the re-establishment of autocracy he was arrested and imprisoned for three months by order of the prince of Canosa, the chief of police, his particular enemy.

  • The collapse of the Prussian autocracy involved that of the lesser German potentates.

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