adjective
1. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
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an autocratic person
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autocratic behavior
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a bossy way of ordering others around
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a rather aggressive and dominating character
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managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way
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a swaggering peremptory manner
• Syn: ↑bossy, ↑dominating, ↑high-and-mighty, ↑magisterial, ↑peremptory
• Similar to: ↑domineering
2. characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
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an authoritarian regime
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autocratic government
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despotic rulers
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a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war
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a tyrannical government
• Syn: ↑authoritarian, ↑dictatorial, ↑despotic, ↑tyrannic, ↑tyrannical
• Similar to: ↑undemocratic
Useful english dictionary. 2012.