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AUTOCRATIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does autocratic mean?
• AUTOCRATIC (adjective)
The adjective AUTOCRATIC has 2 senses:
1. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
2. characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
Familiarity information: AUTOCRATIC used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
Synonyms:
autocratic; bossy; dominating; high-and-mighty; magisterial; peremptory
Context example:
a swaggering peremptory manner
Similar:
domineering (tending to domineer)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
Synonyms:
authoritarian; autocratic; despotic; dictatorial; tyrannic; tyrannical
Context example:
a tyrannical government
Similar:
undemocratic (not in agreement with or according to democratic doctrine or practice or ideals)
Derivation:
autocrat (a cruel and oppressive dictator)
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