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English Dictionary: autocratic by the DICT Development Group
2 results for autocratic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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