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# despotic

«despotic» in Mova's school dictionary: **Despotic describes a ruler who has total power and uses…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Despotic describes a ruler who has total power and uses it cruelly, without asking anyone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despotic/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a king or queen who gives orders that must always be obeyed, however unfair.

### examples

- The despotic king taxed everyone and punished anyone who complained. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despotic/#x1)
- A despotic ruler does not listen to his people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despotic/#x2)
- The villagers hated their despotic lord. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despotic/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «despotic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despotic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.