autocratic

  • (s) 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
    bossy, high-and-mighty, peremptory, magisterial, dominating,
  • (s) 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
    authoritarian, tyrannic, tyrannical, despotic, dictatorial,

Synonyms

bossy high-and-mighty peremptory magisterial dominating authoritarian tyrannic tyrannical despotic dictatorial

Words of close approximity

autocratically