What is another word for iron fist?

Pronunciation: [ˈa͡ɪ͡ən fˈɪst] (IPA)

The term "iron fist" is commonly used to describe a person who is strict and uncompromising in their approach to leadership. However, there are a number of synonyms that can be used to convey a similar meaning. Some examples include "autocratic," "authoritarian," "tyrannical," "dictatorial," and "despotic." These words all suggest a leader who wields significant power and control over their subordinates, and who tends to impose their will on others rather than seeking to work collaboratively or negotiate compromises. Depending on the context, some of these synonyms may be more appropriate than others, but they all convey a similar sense of forcefulness and inflexibility.

What are the hypernyms for Iron fist?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Iron fist?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for iron fist (as nouns)

Famous quotes with Iron fist

  • But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
    Liam Neeson
  • Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)
    Paul Klee
  • We are moving from Iron Dome to an iron fist.
    Naftali Bennett
  • There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.
    Gregory Benford - Timescape
  • JOHNNY WAS THE MAN There was a man named Johnny. Who shared with me his true love story. I learned so much from that wise old man. I am out to sing his final glory! Johnny lived to a ripe old age and live by a daily poker winning plan. With an iron fist, his family he did rule! Together they worked hand in hand in that poker playing land. Johnny was the champion, he was the world's best! It was proven day after day, world wide over. Into the eyes of some wicked men he met. His childhood friends and partners for sure on Johnny they would bet. If he ever needed backing. Funds would always be in abundance. For everyone knew. Johnny was always good, loyal, and true. He loved and played poker and was the first in that hall of fame. When he died people forgot about that old man Johnny. But, I will never forget the man who loved and ruled the tables and made Poker the game it is today!
    Hazel Elder

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