adjective. Of or relating to a tyrant or tyranny.

adjective. Characteristic of a tyrant or tyranny; despotic and oppressive: synonym: dictatorial.

Having the character of a tyrant; acting like a tyrant; despotic in rule or procedure; arbitrary; imperious; as, a tyrannical master.

Pertaining to or characteristic of a tyrant; unjustly severe in operation; oppressive: as, a tyrannical government; tyrannical actions.

Synonyms Domineering, severe, oppressive, galling, grinding. See despotism.

adjective. Of, or relating to tyranny or a tyrant.

adjective. Despotic, oppressive or authoritarian.

adjective. characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty

adjective. marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior

"They make it a text and pretext for inveighing against the government, and so weakening its hold on the popular confidence and support; for raising seditious outcries against any restriction of the license to talk and print treason -- what they call tyrannical oppression of the freedom of speech and of the press."

domineering  oppressive  

domineering  undemocratic  

botanical  electromechanical  mechanical  puritanical  

arrogant  avaricious  capricious  corrupt  cowardly  

absolute  absolutist  absolutistic  arbitrary  arbitrary