Difference between Tyrannical and Authoritarian

TYRANNICAL vs AUTHORITARIAN: NOUN

Of or relating to or associated with or resembling a dictatorship
Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
Of or relating to a tyrant or tyranny.
Characteristic of a tyrant or tyranny; despotic and oppressive: : dictatorial.
Of, or relating to tyranny or a tyrant.
Despotic, oppressive or authoritarian.
Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior

Likened to a dictator in severity
Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
Expecting unquestioning obedience
Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom.
Tending to tell other people what to do in a peremptory or arrogant manner. : dictatorial.
Of, or relating to, absolute obedience to an authority.
Characterised by a tyrannical obedience to an authority; dictatorial.
Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one was an authority.

Having the character of a tyrant; acting like a tyrant; despotic in rule or procedure; arbitrary; imperious; as, a tyrannical master.
Pertaining to or characteristic of a tyrant; unjustly severe in operation; oppressive: as, a tyrannical government; tyrannical actions.
Synonyms Domineering, severe, oppressive, galling, grinding. See despotism.
Having absolute sovereignty

Atrocious, Brutal, Arbitrary, Bossy, Totalitarian, Tyrant, Undemocratic, Tyrannic, Authoritarian, Autocratic, Domineering, Tyrannous, Oppressive, Dictatorial, Despotic

Bossy, Assertive, Patriarchal, Interventionist, Tyrant, Totalitarian, Unpermissive, Overbearing, Domineering, Dictator, Undemocratic, Tyrannical, Despotic, Dictatorial, Autocratic

Atrocious, Brutal, Arbitrary, Bossy, Totalitarian, Tyrant, Undemocratic, Tyrannic, Authoritarian, Autocratic, Domineering, Tyrannous, Oppressive, Dictatorial, Despotic

Bossy, Assertive, Patriarchal, Interventionist, Tyrant, Totalitarian, Unpermissive, Overbearing, Domineering, Dictator, Undemocratic, Tyrannical, Despotic, Dictatorial, Autocratic

Executive Branch from devolving into a tyrannical body.
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God a license to be coercive and tyrannical.
Mendoza and Michael Tylo as the tyrannical Alcalde.
There have been natural disasters and tyrannical leaders.
OVERBEARING, OPPRESSIVE, OR TYRANNICAL CONDUCTMembers of the department shall not be overbearing, oppressive, or tyrannical in their relations with members of the community.
ERADICATE TYRANNICAL AND CORRUPT OFFICIALS Tyrannical and corrupt officials are harmful elements of the nation, who harass and oppress the people.
Montesquieu, tyrannical laws may be made that they may be executedin a tyrannical manner.
They do not care if the government is tyrannical as long as it's tyrannical government.
If the law is tyrannical then the police are tyrannical.

Monotheistic religions are intolerant, power hungry and authoritarian.
Guttman criterion, as follows: Authoritarian Role Preferance, Authoritarian Role Pressure, Equalitarian Role Preferance, Equalitarian Role Pressure, Balanced Manager, People Oriented Manager, Assumed
Furthermore, the students from neglectful and authoritarian families presented the highest levels of school maladjustment, without differences between neglectful and authoritarian or between indulgent
Authoritarian The authoritarian parent attempts to shape, control, and evaluate the behavior and attitudes of the child in accordance with a set standard of.
Conversely, authoritarian regimes might adopt takings clauses for disingenuous reasons, suggesting that takings clauses in authoritarian regimes will fail to reduce expropriation risks.
The authoritarian values he brought with him into the military school are further strengthened by the authoritarian culture in the military.
Although prior studies have found the negative relation of authoritarian leadership with workplace outcome, authoritarian leadership styles are particularly prevalent in emerging markets.
Some authoritarian governments are more efficacious at wielding power than other authoritarian governments; the same may be true of democratic states.
It is impossible to learn via authoritarian means how to do things in non-authoritarian ways.
An authoritarian theocracy, a state ruled by religious leaders, quickly replaced the secular authoritarian regime.