autocratic

3 definitions found

autocratic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Autocratic \Au`to*crat"ic\, Autocratical \Au`to*crat"ic*al\, a.
     Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute;
     holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. --
     Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

autocratic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  autocratic
      adj 1: 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" [syn: autocratic, bossy,
             dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial,
             peremptory]
      2: 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" [syn: authoritarian, autocratic,
         dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical]

autocratic - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  102 Moby Thesaurus words for "autocratic":
     absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic,
     arrogant, ascendant, autarchic, authoritarian, authoritative,
     authorized, autonomous, bossy, bureaucratic, civic, civil,
     clothed with authority, commanding, competent, consequential,
     considerable, constitutional, controlling, democratic, despotic,
     dictatorial, dominant, domineering, duly constituted, eminent,
     empowered, ex officio, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic,
     feudal, governing, governmental, great, grinding, gubernatorial,
     haughty, hegemonic, hegemonistic, heteronomous, high-handed,
     imperative, imperial, imperious, important, influential, leading,
     lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful, matriarchal,
     matriarchic, mighty, momentous, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic,
     monocratic, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, oppressive,
     overbearing, overruling, overweening, parliamentarian,
     parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, peremptory, pluralistic,
     political, potent, powerful, preeminent, prestigious, prominent,
     puissant, ranking, repressive, republican, ruling, self-governing,
     senior, severe, strict, substantial, superior, suppressive,
     supreme, theocratic, totalitarian, tyrannical, tyrannous,
     weighty