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Adjective: autocratic  ,o-tu'kra-tik
  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: domineering, undemocratic

Encyclopedia: Autocratic