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autocratic

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au·to·crat  t-krt)
n.
1. A ruler having unlimited power; a despot.
2. A person with unlimited power or authority: a corporate autocrat.

[French autocrate, from Greek autokrats, ruling by oneself : auto-, auto- + -krats, -crat.]

auto·cratic, auto·crati·cal adj.
auto·crati·cal·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.autocratic - 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"
domineering - tending to domineer
2.autocraticautocratic - 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"
undemocratic - not in agreement with or according to democratic doctrine or practice or ideals; "the union broke with its past undemocratic procedures"

autocratic
Translations
autocratic [ɔːtəˈkrætɪk] adjautocrático
autocratic [ɔːtəˈkrætɪk] adjautocratique
autocratic [ɔːtəˈkrætɪk] adjautokratisch
autocratic [ɔːtəˈkrætɪk] adjautocratico/a


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Harling, therefore, seemed to me autocratic and imperial in his ways.
Nor could there have been a war had there been no English intrigues and no Duke of Oldenburg, and had Alexander not felt insulted, and had there not been an autocratic government in Russia, or a Revolution in France and a subsequent dictatorship and Empire, or all the things that produced the French Revolution, and so on.
He is the satrap of that province in the autocratic realm of the ship, and more personally responsible for anything that may happen there.
 
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