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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

also autocratical adjective Date: 1823 1. of, relating to, or being an autocracy ; absolute <an autocratic government> 2. characteristic of or resembling an autocrat ; despotic <an autocratic ruler> • autocratically adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

An autocratic person or organization has complete power and makes decisions without asking anyone else's advice. The people have grown intolerant in recent weeks of the King's autocratic ways. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Absolute, despotic, unlimited. 2. Tyrannous, tyrannical, oppressive, overbearing, disdainful, magisterial. See arrogant.

Moby Thesaurus

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