Usually means: Government by the least qualified.
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  1. kakistocracy: Merriam-Webster
  2. kakistocracy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. kakistocracy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. kakistocracy: Wordnik
  5. kakistocracy: Wiktionary
  6. kakistocracy: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Kakistocracy, kakistocracy: Dictionary.com
  8. kakistocracy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Kakistocracy (song), Kakistocracy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Kakistocracy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. kakistocracy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. kakistocracy: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  13. Kakistocracy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. kakistocracy: FreeDictionary.org
  15. kakistocracy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. kakistocracy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Kakistocracy: World Wide Words

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  1. kakistocracy: A Word A Day

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  1. kakistocracy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (kakistocracy)

▸ noun:  (political science) Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.

Similar:
kratocracy, ptochocracy, critocracy, kritocracy, despotocracy, oligocracy, corruptocracy, plutocracy, idiocracy, aristocracy, more...

Opposite:
aristocracy, oligarchy, plutocracy

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Similar:
kratocracy, ptochocracy, critocracy, kritocracy, despotocracy, oligocracy, corruptocracy, plutocracy, idiocracy, aristocracy, more...

Opposite:
aristocracy, oligarchy, plutocracy

Colors:
    brown,     gray,     black,     dark green,     olive, more...



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