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also autocratical
Synonyms & Antonyms of autocratic
1
exercising power or authority without interference by others
- democracy is supposed to protect the people against the rise of autocratic rulers
Synonyms for autocratic
- absolute,
- arbitrary,
- czarist
- (also tsarist or tzarist),
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- monocratic,
- tyrannical
- (also tyrannic),
- tyrannous
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2
fond of ordering people around
- an autocratic Boy Scout leader who is under the delusion that he's still an army colonel
Synonyms for autocratic
Words Related to autocratic
- 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
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The first known use of autocratic was in 1769
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