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authoritarian
Synonyms and Antonyms of authoritarian
- grew up with an authoritarian older sister who thought she was queen of the world
authoritative, autocratic (also autocratical), bossy, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, imperious, masterful, overbearing, peremptory, tyrannical (also tyrannic), tyrannous
arrogant, assumptive, disdainful, fastuous, haughty, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-hat, huffy, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, self-asserting, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity
commanding, controlling, dictating, regimental
arbitrary, high-handed, imperial
aggressive, assertive, self-assertive
conceited, narcissistic, pompous, vain
- an authoritarian coach who runs football practice like it's boot camp
adamant, adamantine, callous, hardened, hard-hearted, hard-line, immovable, implacable, inflexible, merciless, ossified, pitiless, relentless, rock-ribbed, stiff, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding
ascetic (also ascetical), monastic, monkish
determined, firm, resolved, single-minded, steadfast, unflinching
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