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imperiousadjective fond of ordering people aroundan imperious little boy who liked to tell the other scouts what to do authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic(also autocratical), bossy, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, masterful, overbearing, peremptory, 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 having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitudean imperious movie star who thinks she's some sort of goddess arrogant, assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin(also hifalutin), huffish, huffy, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, peremptory, 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 necessityan office administrator with an imperious manner that really grates on people arbitrary, dictatorial, high-handed, peremptory, 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 needing immediate attentionas war casualties mounted, the need for trained nurses became imperious acute, burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgent demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overridingcrucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death(also life-or-death), serious, severe, vitaldangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstable noncritical, nonurgent incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportantnonthreatening, safe, stable 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 1529 |