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despotick

despotick is the obsolete spelling of despotic.

Meaning of despotic

Adjective

despotic (comparative more despotic, superlative most despotic)

  1. Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.
    • This despotic age of the empire ended in a revolt.
  2. Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical.
    • The despotic king dissolved the parliament, and took personal control of the country.
    Synonyms:
    bossy and arrogant

Forms of despotick

comparativemore despotick
superlativemost despotick

Questions about despotick

What is despotick the obsolete spelling of?
Despotick is the obsolete spelling of despotic.

Words near despotick in the dictionary

  1. despotesses
  2. despotic
  3. despotical
  4. despotically
  5. despoticalness
  6. despotick
  7. despoticly
  8. despotism
  9. despotisms
  10. despotist
  11. despotists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: despotick (page history and authors); despotic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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