δεσποτικός — meaning in English
despotikos
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English meaning
- arbitrary adj Based on personal choice or chance rather than any clear reason, rule, or system.
- autocratic adj Having complete, unchecked control over how a country or group is governed.
Senses
δεσποτικός is used for these senses in English:
- arbitrary Determined by impulse rather than reason; often connoting heavy-handedness.
- autocratic Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.
- autocratic (pejorative) Of or pertaining to the manner of an autocrat.
arbitrary — full definition
- adj Based on personal choice or chance rather than any clear reason, rule, or system.
- adj Used, in mathematics and logic, to mean "any one you like" out of all the possibilities — not random in the everyday sense, but unspecified.
autocratic — full definition
- adj Having complete, unchecked control over how a country or group is governed.
- adj Behaving like a ruler who lets no one else have a say.
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