tyranny

Word Type

n.

tyranny Meaning Definition

The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.

Synonyms for tyranny

Caesarism,Nazism,Stalinism,absolute monarchy,absolutism,arbitrariness,argumentum baculinum,aristocracy,autarchy,authoritarianism,autocracy,autonomy,benevolent despotism,big battalions,big stick,bond service,bondage,brute force,captivity,coalition government,colonialism,commonwealth,constitutional government,constitutional monarchy,control,czarism,debt slavery,democracy,deprivation of freedom,despotism,dictatorship,disenfranchisement,disfranchisement,domination,domineering,dominion rule,duarchy,duumvirate,dyarchy,enslavement,enthrallment,fascism,federal government,federation,feudal system,feudalism,feudality,force,garrison state,gerontocracy,heavy hand,helotism,helotry,heteronomy,hierarchy,hierocracy,high hand,home rule,indentureship,iron boot,iron hand,iron heel,kaiserism,limited monarchy,main force,martial law,meritocracy,militarism,military government,mob rule,mobocracy,monarchy,monocracy,naked force,neocolonialism,ochlocracy,oligarchy,one-man rule,one-party rule,oppression,pantisocracy,paternalism,patriarchate,patriarchy,peonage,physical force,police state,pure democracy,regency,reign of terror,representative democracy,representative government,republic,restraint,rule of might,self-determination,self-government,serfdom,serfhood,servility,servitude,slavery,social democracy,steamroller,stratocracy,subjection,subjugation,suppression,technocracy,terrorism,thearchy,theocracy,thought control,thrall,thralldom,totalitarian government,totalitarian regime,totalitarianism,totality,triarchy,triumvirate,ultima ratio,vassalage,villenage,welfare state

Synonym Search Links for tyranny

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