authoritarian

Synonyms

austere, flinty, hard, harsh, heavy-handed, ramrod, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, tough;

Antonyms

clement, forbearing, gentle, indulgent, lax, lenient, tolerant;

Near Antonyms

easy, easygoing, laid-back, undemanding;

charitable, kind, merciful, mild, patient, soft, softhearted;

accepting, compromising, yielding;

responsive, willing;

acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, complaisant, compliant, flexible, pliable, pliant;

Related Words

demanding, exacting;

uncharitable, unforgiving;

adamant, callous, hardened, hard-hearted, hard-line, immovable, implacable, inflexible, merciless, pitiless, relentless, rock-ribbed, stiff, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding;

dour, gruff;

ascetic (also ascetical), monastic, monkish;

browbeating, bullying;