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tyrant
tyrant is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the family Tyrannidae; -- called also tyrant bird.
- 4intransitive verb
To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical.
- 5noun
a cruel and oppressive dictator
- 6noun
any person who exercises power in a cruel way
"his father was a tyrant"
- 7noun
in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
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