All despotic synonyms
des·pot·ic
D d adjective despotic
- dictatorial — Dictatorial means controlled or used by a dictator.
- repressive — tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
- high-handed — condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
- domineering — inclined to rule arbitrarily or despotically; overbearing; tyrannical: domineering parents.
noun despotic
- imperialist — the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
adj despotic
- absolute — Absolute means total and complete.
- authoritarian — If you describe a person or an organization as authoritarian, you are critical of them controlling everything rather than letting people decide things for themselves.
- autocratic — An autocratic person or organization has complete power and makes decisions without asking anyone else's advice.
- oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- tyrannical — of or characteristic of a tyrant.