Associations to the word «Autocratic»

Wiktionary

AUTOCRATIC, adjective. Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.
AUTOCRATIC, adjective. Of or pertaining to the manner of an autocrat.

Dictionary definition

AUTOCRATIC, adjective. Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner".
AUTOCRATIC, adjective. Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats