Tyrannical
[tɪ'rænɪk(ə)l;taɪ-] or [tɪ'rænɪkl]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly severe in government; absolute; imperious; despotic; cruel; arbitrary; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government.
Typist: Louis
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Despotic, arbitrary, imperious, domineering, high, absolute, irresponsible, bound by no law.[2]. Cruel, severe, oppressive grinding, galling, inhuman.
Typed by Kevin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Arbitrary, despotic, cruel, severe, high-handed,[See JEER]
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Examples
- Reflecting upon these and similar evils, you held the tyrannical State to be the most miserable of States? Plato. The Republic.
- Tell your tyrannical master, I do only beseech him to dismiss the Lady Rowena in honour and safety. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It's this sort of thing--this tyrannical spirit, wanting to play bishop and banker everywhere--it's this sort of thing makes a man's name stink. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Truly a tyrannical son is a blessing to his father and mother! Plato. The Republic.
- And the tyrannical soul must be always poor and insatiable? Plato. The Republic.
- He who is of a tyrannical nature, and instead of leading a private life has been cursed with the further misfortune of being a public tyrant. Plato. The Republic.
- And when you see the same evils in the tyrannical man, what do you say of him? Plato. The Republic.
- And is there any man in whom you will find more of this sort of misery than in the tyrannical man, who is in a fury of passions and desires? Plato. The Republic.
- The number of the interval which separates the king from the tyrant, and royal from tyrannical pleasures, is 729, the cube of 9. Plato. The Republic.
- Is he tyrannical? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The shadow then of tyrannical pleasure determined by the number of length will be a plane figure. Plato. The Republic.
- Truly, then, I said, a tyrannical son is a blessing to his father and mother. Plato. The Republic.
- In speaking of the number 729 as proper to human life, he probably intended to intimate that one year of the tyrannical = 12 hours of the royal life. Plato. The Republic.
- He is neither tyrannical nor hypocritical. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Last of all comes the tyrannical man; about whom we have once more to ask, how is he formed out of the democratical? Plato. The Republic.
- And must not the tyrannical man be like the tyrannical State, and the democratical man like the democratical State; and the same of the others? Plato. The Republic.
- Before my eyes he grows suspicious, capricious, hard, tyrannical, unjust. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Last of all comes the tyrannical man, about whom we have to enquire, Whence is he, and how does he live--in happiness or in misery? Plato. The Republic.
- And the lustful and tyrannical desires are, as we saw, at the greatest distance? Plato. The Republic.
- Yes, he said, that is the way in which the tyrannical man is generated. Plato. The Republic.
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