tyrannous
/ˈtɪɹənəs/adjective
tyrannous is an adjective meaning “Tyrannical, despotic or oppressive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-Y-R-A-N-N-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does tyrannous mean?
adjective
- 1
Tyrannical, despotic or oppressive.
As life wears on and finds no rest, The individual in each breast Is tyrannous to sunder them.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tyrannous?
- /ˈtɪɹənəs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tyrannous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of tyrannous
- more tyrannous comparative
- most tyrannous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tyrannous?
Tyrannous appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does tyrannous come from?
From Latin tyrannus (“tyrant”) + English -ous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).