Somewhat like or resembling a czar; having qualities characteristic of czarist rule or authority.
Formed from czar with the English suffix -ish, which creates adjectives meaning 'somewhat like' or 'having the nature of.' This productive suffix allows English speakers to make casual comparisons to czars.
The -ish suffix is one of English's most playful tools—you can add it to almost anything to mean 'kind of' or 'somewhat,' so czarish means 'kind of like a czar'—and it's actually less formal and more sarcastic than the more official czarian or czaric forms.
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