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What is the adjective for despotism?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb despotize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

despotic
  1. Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.
  2. Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. dictatorial, tyrannical, autocratic, authoritarian, imperious, domineering, overbearing, oppressive, tyrannous, peremptory, bossy, absolute, arbitrary, autocratical, harsh, authoritative, tyrannic, draconian, arrogant, totalitarian, repressive, masterful, undemocratic, monocratic, autarchic, ruthless, czarist, tsarist, illiberal, absolutist, summary, merciless, uncontrolled, unaccountable, unconstitutional, high-handed, anti-democratic, one-party, single-party, magisterial, severe, overweening, strict, dogmatic, lordly, rigid, pushy, cruel, coercive, dominating … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The country will swarm with informers, spies, delators, and all the odious reptile tribes that breed in the sunshine of despotic power.”
      “Obeying no law, despotic authority was arbitrary, and its animating spirit was fear.”
      “Sadly, many nations suffer from despotic, inhumane regimes, and we play sport with them.”
despotick
  1. Obsolete form of despotic.
despotical
  1. Despotic.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. despotic
  3. Examples:
      4. “The ruler's despotical regime left the citizens stripped of their basic rights and enslaved to his every whim.”
      “The problem with this reasoning is that Arab regimes have shown themselves to be more despotical than enlightened.”
      “And forfeiture gives the third despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property.”
despotized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of despotize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. oppressed, subjugated, tyrannised, tyrannized, dominated, persecuted, maltreated, crushed, tormented, subjected, tortured, abused, plagued, harassed, enslaved, hegemonized, wronged, harried, hounded, coerced, beset, exploited, overthrew, overthrown, scourged, aggrieved, distressed, ruled, forced, mastered, annoyed, chastened, encumbered, handicapped, outraged, pressed, prest, rode, rid, ridden, saddled, strained, taxed, trampled, vexed, vext, worried, controlled, ill-treated, kept down … more
despotizing
  1. present participle of despotize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. oppressing, subjugating, tyrannising, tyrannizing, dominating, persecuting, maltreating, crushing, tormenting, subjecting, torturing, abusing, plaguing, harassing, enslaving, hegemonizing, wronging, harrying, hounding, coercing, besetting, exploiting, overthrowing, scourging, aggrieving, distressing, ruling, forcing, mastering, annoying, chastening, encumbering, handicapping, outraging, pressing, riding, saddling, straining, taxing, trampling, vexing, worrying, controlling, ill-treating, keeping down, treating harshly, holding sway over, grinding down, tyrannizing over, ruling over … more
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