Synonyms for autocratic

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1. Said of persons

   domineering, dictatorial, tyrannical, authoritarian, imperious, self-willed, officious, strict, severe, dogmatic, despotic, inquisitorial, authoritative, overbearing, peremptory, arrogant, repressive, harsh, inflexible, arbitrary, oppressive, cruel, grinding, exacting, unrelenting, heavy-handed, iron-handed, megalomaniacal, monomaniacal, power-crazed, power-mad, petulant, willful, headstrong, highhanded, bossy*, like godalmighty*, high-and-mighty*.

   Antonyms lenient*, submissive, affable.

2. Said of governments

   despotic, dictatorial, absolutistic; see absolute 3.