autocratic meaning and definition

AUTOCRATIC adjective

Definition of autocratic (adjective)

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"
   • synonyms: 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"
   • synonyms: authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical