Adjective autocratic has 4 senses
- autocratical, autocratic - of the nature of or relating to an autocrat; "an autocratic ruler"
- autocratic, autocratical - relating to or of the nature of or having characteristics of an autocracy; "an autocratic government"; "autocratic political rule"
- autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory - 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"
Antonym: submissive (indirect, via domineering)
- authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannical - 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"
Antonym: democratic (indirect, via undemocratic)
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