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Adjective: autocratic  `otu'kratik
  1. Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
    "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behaviour"
    - bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory
     
  2. Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
    "autocratic government"
    - authoritarian, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical

See also: autocrat, autocratically, domineering, undemocratic

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