Main entry: tyrannic, tyrannical, despotic, dictatorial, authoritarian, autocratic
Definition: characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
Usage: an authoritarian regime; autocratic government; despotic rulers; a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war; a tyrannical government
Main entry: peremptory, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, bossy, autocratic
Definition: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
Usage: 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