adjective
- Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior.
- usage: "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"
- synonyms: oppressive, tyrannous
- Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty.
- usage: "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government"
- synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic
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