Another word for tyrannical
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Adjective
Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority
- Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed:
- A practitioner or supporter of such a government.
- Tending to tell others what to do in an presumptuous manner.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a dictator or dictatorship; autocratic.
- of or like a despot; autocratic; tyrannical
- Relating to or being an autocrat.
- Tending to impose one's will on others in an insistent or arrogant manner; domineering.
- Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom:
- Tending to tell other people what to do in a peremptory or arrogant manner.
See also:Having and exercising complete political power and control
- Characterized by tyranny; despotic.
- Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed:
- A practitioner or supporter of such a government.
- Having complete political power or control; autocratic
- Tending to tell others what to do in an presumptuous manner.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a dictator or dictatorship; autocratic.
- of or like a despot; autocratic; tyrannical
- Relating to or being an autocrat.
- Tending to impose one's will on others in an insistent or arrogant manner; domineering.
- Of, pertaining to, or marked by autarchy; autocratic.
- Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle:
- Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference:
- Relating to a decision made by a court or legislature that lacks a grounding in law or fact:
- Alternative form of absolutist.[First attested in the mid 19th century.]
- Unqualified in extent or degree; total:
- Not limited by restrictions or exceptions:
- Being fully such; utter:
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Another word for tyrannical
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- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a lord.
- Very dignified and noble:
- Pretentiously arrogant and overbearing.
- Arrogant in asserting or attempting to assert one's will over others; overbearing.
- Extremely ruthless or cruel.
- Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
- Harsh; unrelenting:
- Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed:
- A practitioner or supporter of such a government.
- Of or relating to fascism; fascistoid; fascist
- Tending to tell others what to do in an presumptuous manner.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a dictator or dictatorship; autocratic.
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