Vocabulary
Autocratic
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
relating to a ruler who has absolute power.
Urdu meaning
شخصی حکومت ، مطلق العنان، آمرانہ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Their elected representatives need to show some spine and confront the autocratic tendencies of their president.
Dawn Editorials —
Land of the free?
— 2026-03-23
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One opposes Iran`s autocratic misrule but opposes much more the war on it by global gangster states like `USrael`.The war will affect others too.
Dawn Editorials —
Ending futile wars
— 2026-03-17
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He used the handy pulpit not to convert anyone to his religious views, but to exhort the predominantly Muslim masses to overthrow autocratic rulers as he had done in Iran.
Dawn Editorials —
Bogey of a religious war
— 2026-03-17
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This set of rulers has more autocratic powers than all set-ups after Gen Musharraf`s, but they only help it to survive; its ability to use them to usher progress is weak.Painful IMF medicine was unleashed as well.
Dawn Editorials —
Clueless on economy
— 2026-01-20
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OUR autocratic setup recently launched with much glee an economic vision evocatively named Uraan.
Dawn Editorials —
Uraan hyperbole
— 2025-12-23
Synonyms
despotic, tyrannical, oppressive, repressive, dictatorial, totalitarian, autarchic
Antonyms
democratic, liberal
Curator example
“the constitutional reforms threatened his autocratic power”
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