magisterial

  • (a) of or relating to a magistrate
    • official magisterial functions
  • (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
    autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, peremptory, dominating,
  • (s) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person
    • his distinguished bearing
    • the monarch's imposing presence
    • she reigned in magisterial beauty
    distinguished, imposing, grand,

Synonyms

autocratic bossy high-and-mighty peremptory dominating distinguished imposing grand

Words of close approximity

magisterially