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• s  characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
  a tyrannical government

• It also meant the kind of war which the Chinese have often known-the silent, constant war which tyrannic governments wage upon their people.
• Above all, a tyrannic Puritanism blasts the temptations of the flesh, makes war on warmblooded temptresses.
• The century of the common man means a century of sterile and tyrannic philistinism, whether it be a philistinism of right or of left, of Colonel Blimp or of Comrade Blimp.

• authoritarian
• autocratic
• dictatorial
• despotic
• tyrannical

Quotes

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• Jacques Chirac in CNN
  Asked whether Iraq is better off because of the US-led war, Chirac told reporters, "One thing is for certain, the tyrannic regime of Saddam Hussein is no longer in power. That is a positive step. What is less positive is a level of chaos."