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Tyrannic

Definition: Tyrannic

Tyrannic

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or associated with or resembling a dictatorship; "tyrannical suppression of liberty".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tyrannic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

"Tyrannic" is a common misspelling or typo for: titanic, tyrannical, tyranny.


Synonym: Tyrannic

Synonym: tyrannical (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Tyrannic

Language Translations for "tyrannic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

σατραπικόσ (satrapal, tyrannical), τυραννικόσ (compulsive, despotic, domineering, tyrannical, tyrannous). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yrannictay

   

Portuguese

  

tirânico (arbitrary, bully, domineering, oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тиранический (tyrannical, tyrannous). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tiránico (oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zalim (arbitrary, atrocious, bloody minded, brutal, cruel, cutthroat, daemon, demon, draconian, draconic, fell, felon, fiendish, flinty, grim, heavy, heavy-handed, ill natured, inhuman, miscreant, ogre, oppressive, oppressor, outrageous, persecutor, sanguinary, savage, stony, truculent, tyrannical), gaddarca (atrocious, cruelly, inhumanly, tyrannical), acımasız (atrocious, brutal, coldhearted, cruel, cutthroat, dead, despot, ferocious, fiendish, flinty, grim, hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inclement, inexorable, inhumane, merciless, outrageous, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, slashing, stern, truculent, tyrannical, tyrannous, unmerciful, unpitied, unrelenting, without remorse). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

тиранічний (despotic, despotical, satrapic, satrapical, tyrannical, tyrannous), деспотичний (arbitrary, autocratic, autocratical, despotic, despotical, domineering, imperious, oppressive, satrapic, satrapical, tyrannical, tyrannous). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chuyên chế (despotic, totalitarian, tyrannical, tyrannous), bạo ngược (domineering, tyrannical, tyrannous). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Tyrannic

Derivations

Words beginning with "tyrannic": tyrannical, tyrannically, tyrannicalness, tyrannicalnesses, tyrannicide, tyrannicides. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tyrannic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-n-r-t-y"

-2 letters: cairny, cranny, cyanin, incant, tannic.

-3 letters: actin, antic, cairn, canny, canty, carny, nancy, naric, rainy, riant, tinny, train, triac.

-4 letters: airn, airt, airy, anti, arty, ayin, cain, cant, carn, cart, city, cyan, narc, nary, racy, rain, rani, rant, tain, tarn, tiny, tray, tyin, yarn.

-5 letters: act, ain, air, ait, ani, ant, any, arc, art.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-n-r-t-y"
 

+1 letter: ancientry.

 

+2 letters: itinerancy, transiency, tyrannical.

 

+3 letters: astringency, bicentenary, cybernation, functionary, incantatory, interagency, tyrannicide, uncertainly, uncertainty.

 

+4 letters: annunciatory, cybernations, denunciatory, inadvertency, intercompany, intracompany, renunciatory, tyrannically, tyrannicides.

 

+5 letters: carbonylation, concretionary, confectionary, confraternity, connaturality, constrainedly, cybernetician, glycerinating, incrementally, incriminatory, indeterminacy, intrinsically, noncreativity, nonhysterical, quincentenary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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