287 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ dɛspˈɒtɪk], [ dɛspˈɒtɪk], [ d_ɛ_s_p_ˈɒ_t_ɪ_k]

Related words: despotism, despotic regime, despotism in russia, tyrannical government, regime, totalitarian government

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Similar words for despotic:

• absolute (adjective)
• absolutistic (adjective)
• all (adjective)
• arbitrary (adjective)
• autarchic (adjective)
• authoritarian (adjective)
• autocratic (adjective)
• bossy (adjective)
• bullying (adjective)
• dogmatic (adjective)
• dominant (adjective)
• domineering (adjective)
• imperious (adjective)
• lawless (adjective)
• oppressive (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• overbearing (adjective)
• severe (adjective)
• totalitarian (adjective)
• tyrannical (adjective)
• despotic (noun)
• other synonyms

Paraphrases for despotic

Homophones for despotic

Synonyms for Despotic:

• adj.

  • absolute (adjective)
  • pre-eminent,
  • tyrannous,
  • sovereign,
  • absolutist.
  • absolutistic (adjective)
  • un-conditional,
  • un conditional.
  • all (adjective)
  • despotic.
  • arbitrary (adjective)
  • no ifs ands buts,
  • high handed,
  • high-handed,
  • peremptory.
  • autarchic (adjective)
  • monarchical,
  • most monarchical,
  • more monarchical.
  • authoritarian (adjective)
  • most disciplinarian,
  • un-yielding,
  • doctrinaire,
  • un yielding,
  • more disciplinarian.
  • autocratic (adjective)
  • more allpowerful,
  • more czarlike,
  • allpowerful,
  • more all-powerful,
  • most czarlike,
  • most all-powerful,
  • most all powerful,
  • most allpowerful,
  • more all powerful.
  • bossy (adjective)
  • iron-handed.
  • bullying (adjective)
  • most hectoring,
  • more swaggering,
  • more hectoring,
  • most swaggering,
  • most blustering,
  • more blustering.
  • dogmatic (adjective)
  • more wrong-headed,
  • most wrongheaded,
  • un-equivocal,
  • stiffnecked,
  • in-tolerant,
  • more fascistic,
  • one sided,
  • de-finite,
  • narrowminded,
  • more stiff-necked,
  • most wrong-headed,
  • de finite,
  • narrow minded,
  • un equivocal,
  • more stiff necked,
  • wrong headed,
  • most fascistic,
  • in tolerant,
  • most stiffnecked,
  • onesided,
  • most wrong headed,
  • most stiff necked,
  • more wrong headed,
  • high mighty,
  • more wrongheaded,
  • stiff necked,
  • most stiff-necked,
  • more stiffnecked.
  • dominant (adjective)
  • most overbalancing,
  • over weighing,
  • over-weighing,
  • sur passing,
  • more transcendent,
  • pre vailing,
  • out weighing,
  • more overweighing,
  • pre-vailing,
  • most obtaining,
  • para-mount,
  • over-balancing,
  • over balancing,
  • more outweighing,
  • more prevalent,
  • pre-dominant,
  • para mount,
  • pre-dominate,
  • out-weighing,
  • pre-siding,
  • most predominate,
  • pre dominate,
  • prevailing,
  • pre dominant,
  • more surpassing,
  • more predominate,
  • pre siding,
  • more obtaining,
  • sur-passing,
  • preponderant,
  • most overweighing,
  • fore most,
  • most outweighing,
  • most surpassing,
  • more overbalancing,
  • fore-most.
  • domineering (adjective)
  • on high horse,
  • in driver seat,
  • in-solent,
  • in solent,
  • in drivers seat,
  • crack whip.
  • imperious (adjective)
  • ex-acting,
  • more compulsatory,
  • overweening,
  • ex acting,
  • re-quired,
  • over weening,
  • most compulsatory,
  • re quired,
  • over-weening.
  • lawless (adjective)
  • in subordinate,
  • in fringing,
  • un-tamed,
  • most piratical,
  • non conformist,
  • more terrorizing,
  • un civilized,
  • untamed,
  • un cultivated,
  • more infringing,
  • more piratical,
  • un-civilized,
  • insurgent,
  • most anarchical,
  • dis orderly,
  • more anarchic,
  • in-subordinate,
  • dis-orderly,
  • most anarchic,
  • most recusant,
  • more anarchical,
  • un-peaceful,
  • dis ordered,
  • un peaceful,
  • most infringing,
  • un-cultivated,
  • dis-ordered,
  • un-restrained,
  • most unpeaceful,
  • dis obedient,
  • dis-obedient,
  • in-fringing,
  • more unpeaceful,
  • most anarchistic,
  • non compliant,
  • most terrorizing,
  • more recusant,
  • more anarchistic,
  • un tamed.
  • oppressive (adjective)
  • more disheartening,
  • un-justest,
  • more headache,
  • super incumbent,
  • heavy handed,
  • in human,
  • more depressive,
  • dis-heartening,
  • more confining,
  • most confining,
  • most disheartening,
  • super-incumbent,
  • de-pressing,
  • more superincumbent,
  • most superincumbent,
  • de pressing,
  • un just,
  • un juster,
  • most depressive,
  • heavyhanded,
  • in-human,
  • most headache,
  • un justest,
  • dis heartening,
  • un-juster,
  • un-just.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • bossy,
  • rough going,
  • dogmatic,
  • recusant,
  • overbalancing,
  • straight out,
  • imperious,
  • undemocratic,
  • depressive,
  • dictatorial,
  • one-party,
  • lawless,
  • bullying,
  • all-powerful,
  • autocratic,
  • lordly,
  • totalistic,
  • throwing weight around,
  • crack-the-whip,
  • domineering,
  • no joke,
  • Compulsatory,
  • overbearing,
  • arbitrary,
  • highhanded,
  • superincumbent,
  • fascistic,
  • anarchic,
  • overweighing,
  • czarlike,
  • oppressive,
  • totalitarian,
  • ironhanded,
  • anarchical,
  • stiff-necked,
  • no ifs ands or buts,
  • dominant,
  • unpeaceful,
  • piratical,
  • non-conformist,
  • head ache,
  • wrong-headed,
  • non-compliant,
  • in driver's seat,
  • crack the whip,
  • absolute,
  • tyrannic,
  • anarchistic,
  • authoritarian,
  • dictative,
  • wrongheaded,
  • sniffy.
  • overbearing (adjective)
  • more high-and-mighty,
  • officious,
  • up pity,
  • most high and mighty,
  • sniffiest,
  • up-pity,
  • sniffier,
  • more high and mighty,
  • Over-bearing,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • over bearing.
  • severe (adjective)
  • effortful.
  • totalitarian (adjective)
  • most communist,
  • more communist,
  • most one-party,
  • most nazi,
  • more undemocratic,
  • more one-party,
  • un democratic,
  • un-democratic,
  • more nazi,
  • most oneparty,
  • one party,
  • more one party,
  • more oneparty,
  • more totalistic,
  • oneparty,
  • most totalistic,
  • most undemocratic,
  • most one party.
  • tyrannical (adjective)
  • Ogreish,
  • deterministic,
  • heavy-handed,
  • draconian,
  • discretionary,
  • arrogant.

• n.

  •
  • hateful,
  • inhuman,
  • uncharitable,
  • pitiless,
  • cruel,
  • evil,
  • unkind,
  • awful,
  • hard,
  • monstrous.
  •
  • politics,
  • over.
  • despotic (noun)
  • tyrannical,
  • despotical.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • autarchical,
  • monocratic,
  • absolutistic,
  • autocratical,
  • autarchic.
  •
  • severe.

Paraphrases for Despotic:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrannical.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    arbitrary, oppressive.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    authoritarianism, autocracy, dictatorship, tyranny.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    totalitarian.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    despotism, totalitarian.

Homophones for Despotic:

• dyspeptic, despatch, disputatious, dispatch case, dispatch, decubitus.