autocratic English

Meaning autocratic meaning

What does autocratic mean?

autocratic

— adjective (= bossy, dominating, magisterial, peremptory) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power 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

— adjective (= authoritarian, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannical) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty an authoritarian regime autocratic government despotic rulers a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war a tyrannical government

Synonyms autocratic synonyms

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autocratic English » English

dictatorial

despotic

tyrannical

authoritarian

autocratical

bossy

peremptory

magisterial

imperious

tyrannic

totalitarian

high-and-mighty

dominating

absolute

sovereign

self assertive

plutocratic

paternalist

overbearing

oligarchical

oligarchic

officious

megalomaniacal

forceful

egoistic

dictation

despotical

autarchic

absolutistic

absolutist

Caesarian

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