If you accuse your parents of being tyrants, you are saying they abuse their control of you––they are cruel, overly restrictive of your freedoms, and unfair. A tyrant is a ruler who is cruel and unjust.
An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty.
Noun
a cruel and oppressive dictator
Noun
any person who exercises power in a cruel way; "his father was a tyrant"
Noun
in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
n.
An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or
constitution; a usurper of sovereignty.
n.
Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses
power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful
authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by
taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable
services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control,
which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of
government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor.
n.
Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds
belonging to the family Tyrannidae; -- called also tyrant bird.
v. i.
To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical.
Tyrant
Love, to a yielding heart, is a king, but to a resisting, is a tyrant.3.
Tyrant
An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty.
To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical.
Usage Examples
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
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Other Usage ExamplesFor more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.