Main entry: peremptory
Definition: putting an end to all debate or action
Usage: a peremptory decree
Main entry: peremptory
Definition: not allowing contradiction or refusal
Usage: spoke in peremptory tones; peremptory commands
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