tyrannous

[ tir-uh-nuhs ]

adjective

1. tyrannical.

Other Words From

• tyran·nous·ly adverb
• tyran·nous·ness noun
• non·tyran·nous adjective
• non·tyran·nous·ly adverb
• non·tyran·nous·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of tyrannous¹

1485–95; < Latin tyrann ( us ) tyrant + -ous

Example Sentences

Her nerves and blood were troubled again by the ungovernable, tyrannous impulse of her power.

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We all know that if they got the upper hand they would be far more cruel and more tyrannous than the whites have been.

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Propensities, tendencies, habits, were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendency.

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If the tyrannous day of our fathers had but possessed the means of these our more diffident times!

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You would, then, naturally imagine that the persons who made this abominable system had also made some tyrannous use of it.

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