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n. An absolute ruler who governs without restrictions.

n. A ruler who exercises power in a harsh, cruel manner.

n. An oppressive, harsh, arbitrary person.

n. An absolute ruler who governs without restriction.

n. A harsh and cruel ruler.

n. An oppressive, cruel and harsh person.

v. To act like a tyrant; to be tyrannical.

n. An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty.

n. Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor.

n. Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the family Tyrannidæ; -- called also tyrant bird.

verb-intransitive. To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; be to tyrannical.

n. In ancient Greece, an irresponsible chief or magistrate with unlimited powers, owing his office primarily to insurrection or usurpation.

n. Hence A wilfully arbitrary monarch or person in authority; a ruler or master who uses his power cruelly or oppressively; any person who treats those bound to him in any way as slaves to his will; an autocratic oppressor.

n. A tyrannical or compulsory influence; something that constrains the will inexorably; an overruling power.

n. In ornithology, a tyrant-flycatcher; one of the Tyrannidæ.

To tyrannize over.

To play the tyrant; tyrannize: sometimes with indefinite it.

n. any person who exercises power in a cruel way

n. in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it

n. a cruel and oppressive dictator

"Iraq is a prime example Wikipedia informs us that "like the term tyrant, originally a respectable Ancient Greek title, and to a lesser degree autocrat, it came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive, even abusive rule, yet had rare modern titular uses.""

person    mortal    individual    someone    soul    somebody   

autocrat    bald tyrant    the thirty tyrants   

tyrannical    tyranny   

tyrant bird   

oppressor    despot    dictator    martinet    autocrat   

aspirant   

villain    despot    tyranny    ruler    robber    murderer    despotism    wretch    foe    traitor