DRACONIAN Synonyms

• of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

• unpleasantly stern

• unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• severe

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

• characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• (of rules) stringently enforced

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

• perfect or complete or pure

• something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative

• complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers

• not limited by law

• expressing finality with no implication of possible change

• not capable of being violated or infringed

• a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner

• characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty

• expecting unquestioning obedience

• incapable of change

• not making concessions

• resistant to being bent

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• weighing heavily on the senses or spirit

• marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

• very strong or vigorous

• severely simple

• unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• very bad in degree or extent

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• dispassionate

• resisting weight or pressure

• produced without vibration of the vocal cords

• (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source

• (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum

• with effort or force or vigor

• with firmness

• earnestly or intently

• causing great damage or hardship

• slowly and with difficulty

• indulging excessively

• into a solid condition

• very near or close in space or time

• with pain or distress or bitterness

• to the full extent possible; all the way

• very strong or vigorous

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• dried out

• of or relating to the works of George Orwell (especially his picture of a future totalitarian state)

• designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• fixed and unmoving

• Draconian.

• Relating to or suggestive of dragons.