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adj. of or relating to or associated with or resembling a dictatorship; "tyrannical suppression of liberty"

adj. marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"

authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical

adj. characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government"

authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical

adj. characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government"

oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous

adj. marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"

authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing

adj. expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"

authoritarian, dictatorial

adj. likened to a dictator in severity

authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing

adj. expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"

autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory

adj. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"

blustery, bullying

adj. noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others

cavalier, high-handed

adj. given to haughty disregard of others

heavy-handed, roughshod

adj. unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"

imperious, masterful

adj. able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"

despotic

adj. ruled by or characteristic of a despot; "moved from a feudal to a despotic order"; "his administration was arrogant and despotic"

monarchal, monarchical, monarchic

adj. ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch; "monarchal government"; "monarchical systems"

totalitarian

adj. characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control; "a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul"- Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr.

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