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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Autocratic \Au`to*crat"ic\, Autocratical \Au`to*crat"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- {Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly}, adv From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: autocratic adj 1: of the nature of or relating to an autocrat; "an autocratic ruler" [syn: {autocratical}] 2: relating to or of the nature of or having characteristics of an autocracy; "an autocratic government"; "autocratic political rule" [syn: {autocratical}] 3: 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" [syn: {bossy}, {dominating}, {high-and-mighty}, {magisterial}, {peremptory}] 4: 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" [syn: {authoritarian}, {dictatorial}, {despotic}, {tyrannical}]
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