MEANING
Ruling or behaving as though one's decisions should not be questioned or constrained.
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- autocratic ruler
- autocratic manner
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An autocratic director decided which letters the family could read.
His autocratic manner made even a request sound like a decree.
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- autocratic
Usage notes
Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Comparative more autocratic; superlative most autocratic where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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