All dictator synonyms

noun dictator

• tycoon — a person of great wealth, influence, or power; magnate: a business tycoon; a political tycoon.
• fascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
• autocrat — An autocrat is a person in authority who has complete power.
• commander — A commander is an officer in charge of a military operation or organization.
• chief — The chief of an organization is the person who is in charge of it.
• tyrant — a sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly.
• despot — A despot is a ruler or other person who has a lot of power and who uses it unfairly or cruelly.
• boss — Your boss is the person in charge of the organization or department where you work.
• leader — a person or thing that leads.
• adviser — An adviser is an expert whose job is to give advice to another person or to a group of people.
• magnate — a person of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise, field of business, etc.: a railroad magnate.
• disciplinarian — a person who enforces or advocates discipline: The teacher was a formidable disciplinarian.
• totalitarian — of or relating to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life.
• mogul — any of the Mongol conquerors of India who established an empire that lasted from 1526 to 1857, but held only nominal power after 1803. See also Great Mogul.
• oppressor — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
• 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.
• ringleader — a person who leads others, especially in opposition to authority, law, etc.: a ringleader of revolutionary activities.
• usurper — to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right: The pretender tried to usurp the throne.
• absolutist — the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
• oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
• hitler — Adolf [ad-olf,, ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈæd ɒlf,, ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), (Adolf Schicklgruber"der Führer") 1889–1945, Nazi dictator of Germany, born in Austria: Chancellor 1933–45; dictator 1934–45.
• ruler — a person who rules or governs; sovereign.