Despotic

//dɛsˈpɑt.ɪk//

Synonyms for "despotic" (84 found)

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Translations

34 translations across 18 languages.

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Ancient Greek

2 entries
  • δεσποτικός adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • δεσποτικός adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • деспоти́чен adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • деспоти́чен adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

Catalan

2 entries
  • despòtic adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • despòtic adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

Czech

2 entries
  • despotický adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • despotický adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

Danish

2 entries
  • despotisk adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • despotisk adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • despota adj (of or pertaining to a despot)

Finnish

4 entries
  • despoottinen adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • despoottinen adj (acting or ruling as a despot)
  • itsevaltainen adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • itsevaltainen adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

French

1 entries
  • despotique adj (of or pertaining to a despot)

Georgian

2 entries
  • დესპოტური adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • დესპოტური adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

German

2 entries
  • despotisch adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • despotisch adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • despotikus adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • zsarnoki adj (of or pertaining to a despot)

Neapolitan

1 entries
  • dispoteco adj (of or pertaining to a despot)

Polish

2 entries
  • despotyczny adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • despotyczny adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • despótico adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • despótico adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

Romanian

2 entries
  • despotic adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • despotic adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

Russian

2 entries
  • деспоти́ческий adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • деспоти́чный adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries
  • aintighearnail adj (of or pertaining to a despot)
  • aintighearnail adj (acting or ruling as a despot)

Spanish

1 entries
  • despótico adj (of or pertaining to a despot)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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His rule was despotic.

Source: tatoeba (2674664)

More than once in history have people revolted against the inequalities of life and refused to submit to the restraints of laws and creeds. They have often gone through a period of communism and red terror in the hope of realizing ultimately the Perfect State. Their leaders, undoubtedly sincere at first, espouse the utopian dream, declaring themselves the exponents of its ideals, the promised messengers of its blessings. But with the material for revolt ready at hand, and unable to resist the seductions of nascent power, they soon undergo that transformation which history identifies, often not unjustly, with demagogy, if they fail, or with autocracy, if they succeed. In either case, by utilizing the elements of negation in Society, they become apostles of violence, proclaiming the theory of "creative destruction." But instead of creating a utopia on the ruins of their making, they only succeed in setting up, as history shows, another government, which, no matter how just and sound its foundations are in theory, soon becomes in practice more despotic and corrupt.

Source: tatoeba (5829569)

Democracy has, therefore, two excesses to avoid—the spirit of inequality, which leads to aristocracy or monarchy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads to despotic power.

Source: tatoeba (6022030)

I don't recognize your despotic authority.

Source: tatoeba (6040570)

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