Difference between Tyrannical and Despotic

TYRANNICAL vs DESPOTIC: ADJECTIVE

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

Belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot
Ruled by or characteristic of a despot
Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary.
Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.
Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical.

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.
Having absolute sovereignty
Synonyms Domineering, severe, oppressive, galling, grinding. See despotism.

Having absolute sovereignty
Pertaining to or of the nature of a despot or despotism; unlimited; arbitrary; tyrannical: as, a despotic ruler; despotic government or power; a despotic will.

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

Tyrannous, Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, Tyranny, Oppressive, Autocracy, Despotism, Totalitarian, Repressive, Despotical, Undemocratic, Authoritarian, Autocratic, Dictatorial, Tyrannical

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

Tyrannous, Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, Tyranny, Oppressive, Autocracy, Despotism, Totalitarian, Repressive, Despotical, Undemocratic, Authoritarian, Autocratic, Dictatorial, Tyrannical

Executive Branch from devolving into a tyrannical body.
He needed tyrannical specie in a egg tursu.
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.

Romans, who feared above all else the return to despotic monarchy.
ALARUNappears to assert that Francis always had a despotic tendency.
Absolute rule; tyrannyneed despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
Theexternal danger to be feared, of course, was despotic government.
In despotic systems, success makes the despotism ever stronger.
In his internal Philips government Philip was fully despotic.
Wasinger, Governmental Immunity: Despotic Mantle or Creature of Necessity?
Rome rising up to depose a despotic king.
His superiors treated him in coolly despotic fashion.
Each included an effort to replace one despotic royal sovereign with another despotic royal sovereign.