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All absolutists synonyms

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noun absolutists

  • dictator — A dictator is a ruler who has complete power in a country, especially power which was obtained by force and is used unfairly or cruelly.
  • autocrat — An autocrat is a person in authority who has complete power.
  • disciplinarian — a person who enforces or advocates discipline: The teacher was a formidable disciplinarian.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • boss — Your boss is the person in charge of the organization or department where you work.
  • leader — a person or thing that leads.
  • bully — A bully is someone who uses their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people.
  • dictator — A dictator is a ruler who has complete power in a country, especially power which was obtained by force and is used unfairly or cruelly.
  • 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.
  • absolutist — the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • inquisitor — a person who makes an inquisition.
  • martinet — a strict disciplinarian, especially a military one.
  • stalinJoseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
  • slave driver — an overseer of slaves.
  • big brother — People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do.
  • fuhrer — leader.
  • man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
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