tyrant
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a cruel and oppressive dictator
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- domineer derivation
- tyrannize derivation
- authoritarian derivation
- despotic derivation
- tyrannical derivation
- despotic derivation
Sense 2 noun
in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
Types & categories
Sense 3 noun
any person who exercises power in a cruel way
his father was a tyrant
Types & categories
- person hypernym
Related & opposite
- tyrannical derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | domineer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tyrannize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | authoritarian |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | despotic |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tyrannical |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | despotic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | potentate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | czar |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | ruler |
| 2 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Dionysius |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | tyrannical |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | person |