Vocabulary
Despotic
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
of or typical of a despot; tyrannical.
Urdu meaning
آمرانہ، استبدادی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- In the Middle East, shaky despotic regimes may heave a sigh of relief.
- He noted that Afghanistan continued to remain under despotic personal rule and the people ...
- (Many of these despotic Arab rulers are diehard US allies anyway).
- Who knows if it is lack of empathy or fear that antiIsrael protests could snowball into demonstrations against despotic rule at home.
- Just look at the Western `democratic` governments as wells as the despotic rulers of the Muslim world.
Synonyms
autocratic, dictatorial, totalitarian, authoritarian, absolute, absolutist, arbitrary
Antonyms
democratic, accountable
Curator example
“a despotic regime”
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