ultratyrannical
/ˌʌltɹətɪˈɹæ.nɪ.kl̩/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Guadaloupe, retaken from the English, was now the headquarters of this worthy delegate from the Convention, and from thence he published the following edict, which will give some idea of the tone assumed by these ultratyrannical republicans."
- "There is tragic irony in the fact that this assailant of public tyranny was the victim of a batred inspired by his own ultratyrannical conduct in private life, and that his slayers were those greedy, brutish peasants, whom he loved to depict in his pamphlets as harmless Arcadians in danger of being corrupted by a vicious court and a debauched nobility (see p. 141)."
- "The other vision is hopeful, generous, and confident in the knowledge that over time, Oddity’s litanies have progressed from being merely tyrannical to being supertyrannical, hypertyrannical, and recently ultratyrannical."
Etymology
From ultra- + tyrannical.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌʌltɹətɪˈɹæ.nɪ.kl̩/
Inflected Forms
more ultratyrannical (comparative)
most ultratyrannical (superlative)
ultra-tyrannical (alternative)