Certain vs Despotic - What's the difference?

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Certain is a related term of despotic.

As adjectives the difference between certain and despotic

is that certain is certain while despotic is of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.

certain

English

Adjective

(wikipedia certain) (en adjective)

Sure, positive, not doubting.

I was certain of my decision.

(obsolete) Determined; resolved.

* Milton

However, I with thee have fixed my lot, / Certain to undergo like doom.

Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.

* Bible, Dan. ii. 45

The dream is certain , and the interpretation thereof sure.

Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.

Bankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending.

* Dryden

Virtue that directs our ways / Through certain dangers to uncertain praise.

* Shakespeare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all.

Unfailing; infallible.

* Mead

I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper.

Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.

* Bible, Ex. xvi. 4

The people go out and gather a certain rate every day.

Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun, and meaning certain persons.

* Bible, Luke v. 12

It came to pass when he was in a certain city.

* Macaulay

About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace and decorum.

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* (not doubting) uncertain * (sure to happen) impossible, incidental

Derived terms

* certainly

Determiner

(en determiner)

Having been determined but unspecified. The quality of some particular subject or object which is known by the speaker to have been specifically singled out among similar entities of its class.

* Bible, Acts xxiii. 12

Certain of the Jews banded together.

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despotic

English

Alternative forms

* despotick

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.

This despotic age of the empire ended in a revolt.

Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical.

The despotic king dissolved the parliament, and took personal control of the country.

Synonyms

* (acting or ruling as a despot) domineering, tyrannical