totalitarian

Other forms of totalitarian

plural

totalitarians·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about totalitarian

What does totalitarian mean?

totalitarian means "characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in totalitarian?

totalitarian has 6 syllables: to-tal-i-tar-i-an. The stress falls on "tar". In IPA it is /ˌtoʊˌtælɪˈtɛɹiən/.

What is another word for totalitarian?

Close synonyms include totalistic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is totalitarian a common word?

totalitarian is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with totalitarian?

9 words rhyme with totalitarian. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.