Difference between Tyrannical and Dictatorial

TYRANNICAL vs DICTATORIAL: 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

Of or characteristic of a dictator
Likened to a dictator in severity
Expecting unquestioning obedience
Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
Tending to tell others what to do in an presumptuous manner.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a dictator or dictatorship; autocratic.
Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.
Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing.
Of or pertaining to a dictator
In the manner of a dictator, usually with callous disregard for others

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

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

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.

Shah became progressively dictatorial, especially in the late seventies.
American fear of a standing army assuming dictatorial control.
Why did you ignore this dictatorial and fraudulent action?.
NLM leaders criticised the CPP for perceived dictatorial tendencies.
III, is allowed to succeed in his dictatorial plans.
Senate so that it vested him with dictatorial powers.
Revolution that eventually led to the dictatorial Stalinism.
The Russians do this with whose dictatorial efficiency.
CRM, specifically overly deferential FOs to dictatorial captains.
'Repressive, dictatorial regime' "This is a very repressive, dictatorial regime that continously attacks the opposition," Nogueira told DW in an interview.