(adj) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power, Syn. dominating, high-and-mighty, bossy, magisterial, peremptory, Example: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
(adj) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty, Syn. dictatorial, tyrannic, despotic, autocratic, tyrannical, Example:an authoritarian regime; autocratic government; despotic rulers; a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war; a tyrannical government
(adv) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator, Syn. autocratically, magisterially, Example:this manager acts dictatorially toward his colleagues
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)
{ } 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]