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dictatorial
Synonyms and Antonyms of dictatorial
1
exercising power or authority without interference by others
absolute, arbitrary, autocratic (also autocratical), czarist (also tsarist), despotic, monocratic, tyrannical (also tyrannic), tyrannous
2
fond of ordering people around
authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic (also autocratical), bossy, despotic, 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
3
having or showing a tendency to force one's will on others without any regard to fairness or necessity
arbitrary, high-handed, imperious, peremptory, willful (or wilful)
arrogant, commanding, demanding, dominant, domineering, haughty, imperative, lordly, masterful, overbearing, presumptuous
authoritarian, autocratic (also autocratical), despotic, totalitarian, tyrannical (also tyrannic), tyrannous
capricious, changeable, erratic, inconsistent, mercurial, whimsical
biased, inequitable, partisan, prejudiced, unequal, unfair, unjust, unrealistic, unreasonable
Synonym Discussion of dictatorial
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- exercised dictatorial control over the office
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- the magisterial tone of his pronouncements
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- dogmatic about what is art and what is not
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- a doctrinaire approach to improving the economy
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- a designer who is the oracular voice of fashion
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