Another word for dictatorial
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Adjective
Tending to dictate
- Subject to no further debate or dispute; final and unassailable:
- Not allowing contradiction or refusal; imperative:
- Offensively self-assured; imperious or dictatorial:
- Domineering in manner; arrogant:
- Overwhelming in power or significance; predominant:
- Acting or capable of acting as a master or leader, especially in being domineering or imperious:
- Having or showing mastery or skill; expert:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a master or teacher; authoritative:
- Sedately dignified in appearance or manner:
- Dogmatic; overbearing:
- Arrogantly domineering or overbearing.
- Urgent; pressing:
- Regal; imperial.
- Arrogant in asserting or attempting to assert one's will over others; overbearing.
- Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from dogma.
- Asserting or insisting upon ideas or principles, especially when unproven or unexamined, in an imperious or arrogant manner:
- Characterized by such assertion, often with an unconsidered rejection of criticism:
- Given to ordering others around; domineering.
- Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom:
- Tending to tell other people what to do in a peremptory or arrogant manner.
See also:Having and exercising complete political power and control
- Characterized by tyranny; despotic.
- Of or relating to a tyrant or tyranny:
- Characteristic of a tyrant or tyranny; despotic and oppressive:
- Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed:
- A practitioner or supporter of such a government.
- Having complete political power or control; autocratic
- of or like a despot; autocratic; tyrannical
- Relating to or being an autocrat.
- Tending to impose one's will on others in an insistent or arrogant manner; domineering.
- Of, pertaining to, or marked by autarchy; autocratic.
- Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle:
- Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference:
- Relating to a decision made by a court or legislature that lacks a grounding in law or fact:
- Alternative form of absolutist.[First attested in the mid 19th century.]
- Unqualified in extent or degree; total:
- Not limited by restrictions or exceptions:
- Being fully such; utter:
Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority
- Of or relating to a tyrant or tyranny:
- Characteristic of a tyrant or tyranny; despotic and oppressive:
- Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed:
- A practitioner or supporter of such a government.
- of or like a despot; autocratic; tyrannical
- Relating to or being an autocrat.
- Tending to impose one's will on others in an insistent or arrogant manner; domineering.
- Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom:
- Tending to tell other people what to do in a peremptory or arrogant manner.
See also:
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Another word for dictatorial
Modifier
Overbearing
- Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from dogma.
- Asserting or insisting upon ideas or principles, especially when unproven or unexamined, in an imperious or arrogant manner:
- Characterized by such assertion, often with an unconsidered rejection of criticism:
- Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
- Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others:
- Arrogant in asserting or attempting to assert one's will over others; overbearing.
- Arrogantly domineering or overbearing.
- Urgent; pressing:
- Regal; imperial.
Autocratic
- Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle:
- Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference:
- Relating to a decision made by a court or legislature that lacks a grounding in law or fact:
- Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom:
- Tending to tell other people what to do in a peremptory or arrogant manner.
- of or like a despot; autocratic; tyrannical
Synonym Study
- Doctrinaire implies a rigid adherence to abstract doctrines or theories, without regard to their practical application
- Dogmatic suggests the assertion of certain doctrines as absolute truths not open to dispute the scientific method is not dogmatic
- Arbitrary suggests the unreasoned, unpredictable use of one's power or authority an arbitrary decision
- Dictatorial implies the domineering, autocratic methods or manner of a dictator the dictatorial enunciation of his opinions
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