Another word for tyrannical | Synonyms for tyrannical

Another word for tyrannical

tyrannical Synonyms

tyrannical

modif.

dictatorial, fascistic, totalitarian, brutal, domineering, lordly; see also absolute 3, autocratic 1.

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Another word for tyrannical

also tyrannic adjective

Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority:
authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, totalitarian, tyrannic. See over
Having and exercising complete political power and control:
absolute, absolutistic, arbitrary, autarchic, autarchical, autocratic, autocratical, despotic, dictatorial, monocratic, totalitarian, tyrannic, tyrannous. See over, politics

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He was a tyrannical ruler, and died suddenly in 1522.
In violation of the Law he married a brother's widow, who had already borne children, and in general he showed himself so fierce and tyrannical that the Jews joined with the Samaritans to accuse him before the emperor.
So tyrannical, however, was his rule that in 1316 he was expelled by the popular fury.
At his instance of the tyrannical system of arbitrary imposts and so Florence."
No less a tyrannical master than the Turks and the sheiks;, the country revolted in 1834, but the insurrection was quelled.

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