Autocratic - Definition
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" [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]