autocratic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
    magisterial; peremptory; dominating; high-and-mighty; bossy.
    • 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
  2. adjective satellite characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
    authoritarian; dictatorial; despotic; tyrannic; tyrannical.
    • an authoritarian regime
    • autocratic government
    • despotic rulers
    • a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war
    • a tyrannical government

WordNet

Au`to*crat"ic, Au`to*crat"ic*al adjective (Also<
  • Autocratic
  • Autocratical
)
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Webster 1913