What is the meaning of dictatorial?

Of or characteristic of a dictator.
- usage: "dictatorial powers"
Expecting unquestioning obedience.
- usage: "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
- synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing
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, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical

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