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peremptoryadjective fond of ordering people aroundthe governor's peremptory personal assistant began telling the crowd of reporters and photographers exactly where they had to stand authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic(also autocratical), bossy, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, imperious, masterful, overbearing, tyrannical(also tyrannic), tyrannous arrogant, assumptive, disdainful, fastuous, haughty, highfalutin(also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-hat, huffy, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, self-asserting, supercilious, superior, toplofty(also toploftical), uppish, uppitycommanding, controlling, dictating, regimentalarbitrary, high-handed, imperialdirectorial, magisterialaggressive, assertive, self-assertiveimperativeconceited, narcissistic, pompous, vainall-powerful, almighty, omnipotentfirm, stern humble, meek, modest, unassumingamenable, docile, obedient, tractableindecisive, irresoluteacquiescent, compliant, passive, resigned, submissive, yielding forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by lawa peremptory summons to appear before the committee compulsory, forced, imperative, incumbent, involuntary, mandatory, necessary, nonelective, obligatory, required all-important, essential, indispensable, needed, requisiteinsistent, persistent, pressing, urgentdemanded, enforcedcoercive elective, optional, voluntary chosen, discretionarydispensable, unnecessary, unneeded, unwantedinconsequential, insignificant, nonessential, unimportant having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitudeshe had such a peremptory approach to running the club that people started to avoid her arrogant, assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin(also hifalutin), huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, sniffy, stiff-necked, supercilious, superior, toplofty(also toploftical), uppish, uppity authoritarian, bossy, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, pontificatingcondescending, disdainful, patronizingimpertinent, impudent, saucysnobbish, snobby, snootyblusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggering, vain, vaingloriouscomplacent, conceited, egocentric, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), hubristic, narcissistic, orgulous, prideful, proud, self-affected, self-applauding, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-upself-flattering, self-loving, self-promotingbrash, forward, uninhibited, unreservedextroverted(also extraverted), immodest humble, lowly, modest, unarrogant, unpretentious bashful, cowering, cringing, demure, diffident, introverted, mousy(or mousey), overmodest, self-critical, self-doubting, sheepish, shrinking, shy, subdued, timidacquiescent, compliant, deferential, meek, passive, submissive, unaggressive, unassertive, unassuming, unobtrusive, yieldingquiet, reserved, retiring having or showing a tendency to force one's will on others without any regard to fairness or necessitya peremptory insistence that the staff wait on them first arbitrary, dictatorial, high-handed, imperious, willful(or wilful) arrogant, commanding, demanding, dominant, domineering, haughty, imperative, lordly, masterful, overbearing, presumptuousauthoritarian, autocratic(also autocratical), despotic, totalitarian, tyrannical(also tyrannic), tyrannouscapricious, changeable, erratic, inconsistent, mercurial, whimsicalbiased, inequitable, partisan, prejudiced, unequal, unfair, unjust, unrealistic, unreasonableunconscionable, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous balanced, disinterested, dispassionate, equal, equitable, evenhanded, fair, impartial, just, nonpartisan, objectiverational, reasonable, understandingunbiased, unprejudicedethical, honorable, irreproachable, law-abiding, moral, principled, unimpeachable masterful, domineering, imperious, peremptory, imperative mean tending to impose one's will on others.masterful implies a strong personality and ability to act authoritatively.her masterful personality soon dominated the movement domineering suggests an overbearing or arbitrary manner and an obstinate determination to enforce one's will.children controlled by domineering parents imperious implies a commanding nature or manner and often suggests arrogant assurance.an imperious executive used to getting his own way peremptory implies an abrupt dictatorial manner coupled with an unwillingness to brook disobedience or dissent.given a peremptory dismissal imperative implies peremptoriness arising more from the urgency of the situation than from an inherent will to dominate.an imperative appeal for assistance in the 15th century |