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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

high-and-mighty \high-and-mighty\ a. conceited and arrogant; imperious. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

high-and-mighty 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]