autocratic

Adjective
  1. Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power (synset 300791150)
    "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"
    similar to: domineering - tending to domineer
    same as: bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory
  2. Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule;
    Having absolute sovereignty (synset 300721128)
    "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government"
    similar to: undemocratic - not in agreement with or according to democratic doctrine or practice or ideals
    same as: authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical

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