dictatorial

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: dic=ta=tor=i=al

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dictatorial, adj.
1 of or like a dictator.
2 imperious, overbearing.

Derivative

dictatorially adv.

Etymology

L dictatorius (as DICTATOR)

THESAURUS

dictatorial

U, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, all-powerful, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, autonomous, bossy, bureaucratic, civic, civil, constitutional, democratic, despotic, domineering, elitist, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, feudal, governmental, grinding, gubernatorial, heteronomous, high and mighty, high-handed, hubristic, imperative, imperial, imperious, lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful, matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, omnipotent, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, peremptory, pluralistic, political, repressive, republican, self-governing, severe, strict, suppressive, theocratic, totalitarian, tyrannical, tyrannous, unlimited

ROGET THESAURUS

dictatorial

Insolence

N insolence, haughtiness, arrogance, airs, overbearance, domineering, tyranny, impertinence, sauciness, flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster, swagger, swaggering, bounce, terrorism, assumption, presumption, beggar on horseback, usurpation, impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass, shamelessness, effrontery, hardened front, face of brass, assumption of infallibility, saucebox, insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary, high-handed, high and mighty, contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown, flippant, pert, fresh, cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert, precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious, bluff, brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed, brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced, dead to shame, lost to shame, impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking, jaunty, janty, roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing, thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury, with a high hand, ex cathedra, one's bark being worse than his bite, beggars mounted run their horse to death, quid times? Caesarem vehis, wagahai wa (expressing superiority).