Exact Match:
- tyrant
- a cruel and oppressive dictator
- any person who exercises power in a cruel way; "his father was a tyrant"
- in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
Synonyms:
- Simon Legree,
- absolute monarch,
- absolute ruler,
- all-powerful ruler,
- arrogator,
- autarch,
- authoritarian,
- autocrat,
- bully,
- caesar,
- commissar,
- czar,
- despot,
- dictator,
- disciplinarian,
- driver,
- duce,
- hard master,
- martinet,
- oligarch,
- oppressor,
- overlord,
- pharaoh,
- slave driver,
- stickler,
- strong man,
- totalitarian,
- usurper,
- warlord