People and roles

Synonyms for dictator

The synonym for dictator recorded in this bank is authoritarian, in the sense "a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The synonym for dictator

authoritariannoun, in the sense "a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for dictator.

The sensenounTier 4, High CampPeople and roles

a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner

My boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

authoritarian

Same sentence, swapped: My boss is a authoritarian who makes everyone work overtime.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for dictator in the sentence quoted.

potentate
meanie
tormentor

Where dictator turns up in the game

dictator is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play dictator

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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