Found 3 hits - Term: draconian, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
draconian \draco"nian\, a.
pertaining to draco, a famous lawgiver of athens, 621 b. c.
used especially in the phrase draconian punishment.
1913 webster +pjc
draconian code, or draconian laws, a code of laws made by
draco. their measures were so severe that they were said
to be written in letters of blood; hence, any laws of
excessive rigor.
draconian punishment, punishment so severe as to seem
excessive for the crime being punished.
1913 webster +pjc
see also:
draconian punishment draconian code draconian laws
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
draconian
adj : of or relating to draco or his harsh code of laws;
"draconian measures"
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
48 moby thesaurus words for "draconian":
tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous,
beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal,
brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, cruel-hearted,
demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, fell, feral, ferocious,
fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, hellish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane,
murderous, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic,
savage, sharkish, slavering, subhuman, truculent, unchristian,
uncivilized, unhuman, vicious, wolfish
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