czarist

adjective

variants also tsarist or tzarist
Definition of czaristnext
as in authoritarian
exercising power or authority without interference by others the trustees felt that the university needed a strong, czarist leader who could propel it to world-class status

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for czarist
  1. authoritarian
  2. autocratic
  3. despotic
  4. absolute
  5. domineering
  6. tyrannical
  7. tyrannous
  8. dictatorial
Adjective
  • Yoon’s order faced fierce backlash from the public and lawmakers across the political spectrum, reviving painful memories of the country’s authoritarian past.
    Gawon Bae, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, dollars circulated in authoritarian, murderous Syria because market goods did.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of authoritarian
Adjective
  • For these countries, there is far less concern about Trump’s autocratic tendencies and contempt for liberal internationalist ideals.
    Bilahari Kausikan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Nicaragua's become even more autocratic this year, and recent blackouts in Cuba illustrate how difficult living there is for many.
    Marina E. Franco (Noticias Telemundo for Axios), Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of autocratic
Adjective
  • But Valery, despite his lack of power in a despotic system, is able to help others, and finds a way to not just survive his pain but also live with its lasting effects.
    Vanessa Armstrong, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Assad's fall is a globally resonant message that such despotic regimes cannot endure indefinitely.
    Paul du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of despotic
Adjective
  • No other sport gets the type of passion and the type of excitement and the type of absolute and complete dedication.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The second required only one completion, an absolute laser over the middle to DJ Moore for 27 yards to set up Cairo Santos’ game-tying 48-yard field goal as time expired.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of absolute
Adjective
  • The only thing left to contend with is her domineering mother, the formidable 90-year-old Lenore Simmons Krackenberry, who is obsessed with family lineage and Southern heritage.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Smith is fantastic and terrifying as Mrs. Medlock in The Secret Garden, the stentorian nurse and housekeeper whose domineering overcautiousness feeds into all the self-pitying inclinations of her poor weakling charge Colin Craven.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
Definition of domineering
Adjective
  • Cortland sawing off his own arm and serving it to his tyrannical father — that’s pretty straightforward.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The original Caligari, in which a mysterious doctor and his fortune-telling somnambulist commit a series of murders and drive two young people to madness, is often regarded as a critique of Germans’ blind obedience to tyrannical authority during the First World War.
    Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of tyrannical
Adjective
  • These tyrannous tabbies don’t understand that canning is not exclusively for wet food.
    Julie Klausner, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Indeed, Daniel Roher’s pulse-pumping documentary about the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has all the ingredients: a mysterious case of near-fatal poisoning, a web of for-hire hoodlums, Vladimir Putin as the tyrannous leader behind it all.
    Tomris Laffly, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Feb. 2022
Definition of tyrannous
Adjective
  • Kim added that the pursuit of individualism in Korea coexists with a sense of community, rooted in Confucian values, and a collective yearning for freedom stemming from Japanese occupation and dictatorial regimes.
    Hanna Park, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
  • These are features and not bugs: Spreading fear is the essence of the dictatorial system.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of dictatorial
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