Usually means: Excessively harsh and severe measures.
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  1. draconian: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. draconian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. draconian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. draconian: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Draconian: Vocabulary.com
  6. Draconian, draconian: Wordnik
  7. draconian: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. draconian: Wiktionary
  9. Draconian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Draconian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Draconian: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Draconian, draconian: Dictionary.com
  13. draconian: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. draconian: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Draconian (Doctor Who), Draconian (Dragonlance), Draconian (band), Draconian (disambiguation), Draconian (video game), Draconian, The Draconian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Draconian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. draconian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Draconian: Rhymezone
  19. Draconian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. draconian: Free Dictionary
  21. draconian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Draconian: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. Draconian: The Word Detective
  24. draconian: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. draconian: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. draconian: Legal dictionary

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  1. Draconian: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. draconian: A Word A Day
  2. draconian: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. draconian: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Very severe, cruel, or harsh.
adjective:  (obsolete, except in fiction) Of or resembling a dragon.
adjective:  Of or relating to Draco, the first legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of draconian. [Very severe, cruel, or harsh.]

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