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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power;
- Example: "an autocratic person"
- Example: "autocratic behavior"
- Example: "a bossy way of ordering others around"
- Example: "a rather aggressive and dominating character"
- Example: "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "an authoritarian regime"
- Example: "autocratic government"
- Example: "despotic rulers"
- Example: "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"
- Example: "a tyrannical government"
[syn: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

102 Moby Thesaurus words for "autocratic":
   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