| oppressor | | |
| n. (person) | 1. oppressor | a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures. |
| ~ disagreeable person, unpleasant person | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable. |
| ~ authoritarian, dictator | a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner.; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime" |
| ~ meanie, unkind person, meany | a person of mean disposition. |
| ~ switcher, whipper | a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip. |
| ~ persecutor, tormenter, tormentor | someone who torments. |
| ~ torturer | someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion). |
| tyranny | | |
| n. (group) | 1. absolutism, authoritarianism, caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny | a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.). |
| ~ autocracy, autarchy | a political system governed by a single individual. |
| ~ police state | a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police). |
| n. (state) | 2. absolutism, despotism, tyranny | dominance through threat of punishment and violence. |
| ~ ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, dominance, control | the state that exists when one person or group has power over another.; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" |
| outclassed | | |
| adj. | 1. outclassed | decisively surpassed by something else so as to appear to be of a lower class. |
| ~ inferior | of or characteristic of low rank or importance. |
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