adjective
- Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.
- usage: "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"
- synonyms: bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory
- Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty.
- usage: "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government"
- synonyms: authoritarian, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical
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