authoritarian

Meanings

Plural: authoritarians

Noun

• a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner
• One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority.
• One who follows and is excessively obedient to authority.

Adjective Satellite

• characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
  • "an authoritarian regime"
• expecting unquestioning obedience
  • "the timid child of authoritarian parents"

Adj

• Of, or relating to, or exhibiting strict obedience to an authority; favoring authoritarianism over civic and individual liberties.
• Demanding obedience to authority; marked by authoritarianism; dictatorial, tyrannical.
• Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one were an authority.

Synonyms

arrogant, autocratic, bossy, commanding, despotic, dictator, dictatorial, haughty, imperious, overbearing, tyrannic, tyrannical

Antonyms

democratic, humble, liberal, modest, servile