Synonyms for dictator
ˈdɪk teɪ tər, dɪkˈteɪ tərdic·ta·tor

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1. dictatornoun

   a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine

   Synonyms:
   authoritarian, potentate

2. dictator, potentatenoun

   a ruler who is unconstrained by law

   Synonyms:
   authoritarian, potentate

3. authoritarian, dictatornoun

   a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner

   "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"

   Synonyms:
   authoritarian, potentate

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1. dictatornoun

   Synonyms:
   despot, autocrat, absolute ruler

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1. dictatornoun

   Synonyms:
   despot, autocrat

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1. List of paraphrases for "dictator":

   dictatorship

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How to use dictator in a sentence?

1. Brian Dahle:

   If you get four more years of this dictator, it will cost you a lot more, it’s time for change.

2. Lorenzo Spencer:

   President Donald Trump leads along the lines of being a dictator, if it were to come down to a button, I think President Donald Trump would push it before President Donald Trump would go to Congress and get their advice.

3. Georges Michel:

   You look at these protests calling Martelly a dictator who has to go and you see a thousand or a few thousand people on the streets. Is that really a big popular movement to remove a president? Of course not. Like him or not, he's operating within the framework of democracy and I believe a majority of Haitians support him.

4. House Speaker John Boehner:

   I hope that President Obama, if and when he has a conversation with the Cuban dictator during the Organization of American States summit, will take the opportunity to condemn this violence in the strongest possible terms and reaffirm that the United States should and must always stand on the side of human rights and democracy against Communist tyranny.

5. Jerry Nadler:

   For the President to go around Congress and say 'you don't agree there's an emergency, I think there's an emergency, we're going to spend the money that you said no you won't spend' is upending democratic government, is making the President a dictator, and that's a far greater risk to our government and to our freedom than almost anything else that's going on.