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: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial
- Not allowing contradiction or refusal.
- usage: "spoke in peremptory tones"; "peremptory commands"
- Putting an end to all debate or action.
- usage: "a peremptory decree"
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