autocratic

of the nature of or relating to an autocrat

• “an autocratic ruler”

relating to or of the nature of or having characteristics of an autocracy

• “an autocratic government”
• “autocratic political rule”

offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

• “an autocratic person”
• “autocratic behavior”
• “a bossy way of ordering others around”
• “a rather aggressive and dominating character”
• “managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way”
• “a swaggering peremptory manner”

characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty

• “an authoritarian regime”
• “autocratic government”
• “despotic rulers”
• “a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war”
• “a tyrannical government”