imperious

• acute
• aggressive
• all-powerful
• almighty
• arbitrary
• arrogant
• assertive
• assumptive
• authoritarian
• authoritative
• autocratic
• autocratical
• biased
• blusterous
• blustery
• boastful
• bombastic
• bossy
• braggart
• bragging
• braggy
• brash
• bumptious
• burning
• capricious
• cavalier
• changeable
• chesty
• clamant
• cocky
• commanding
• compelling
• complacent
• compulsatory
• compulsory
• conceited
• condescending
• controlling
• critical
• crucial
• crying
• dangerous
• demanding
• desperate
• despotic
• dictating
• dictatorial
• dire
• directorial
• disdainful
• dominant
• dominating
• domineering
• egocentric
• egoistic
• egoistical
• egotistic
• egotistical
• emergent
• erratic
• exacting
• exigent
• explosive
• extraverted
• extreme
• extroverted
• fastuous
• firm
• forward
• grave
• haughty
• hazardous
• hifalutin
• high-and-mighty
• high-handed
• high-hat
• highfalutin
• hubristic
• huffish
• huffy
• immediate
• immodest
• imperative
• imperial
• impertinent
• important
• importunate
• impudent
• inconsistent
• inequitable
• insistent
• instant
• intense
• life-and-death
• life-or-death
• lofty
• lordly
• magisterial
• mandatory
• masterful
• mercurial
• narcissistic
• necessitous
• obligatory
• omnipotent
• oppressive
• orgulous
• overbearing
• overriding
• overweening
• partisan
• patronizing
• peremptory
• perilous
• pompous
• pontifical
• pontificating
• precarious
• prejudiced
• pressing
• presuming
• presumptuous
• pretentious
• prideful
• proud
• regimental
• required
• saucy
• self-affected
• self-applauding
• self-asserting
• self-assertive
• self-centered
• self-complacent
• self-conceited
• self-flattering
• self-loving
• self-pleased
• self-promoting
• self-satisfied
• serious
• severe
• smug
• sniffy
• snobbish
• snobby
• snooty
• stern
• stiff-necked
• stuck-up
• supercilious
• superior
• swaggering
• toploftical
• toplofty
• totalitarian
• tyrannic
• tyrannical
• tyrannous
• unconscionable
• unequal
• unethical
• unfair
• uninhibited
• unjust
• unprincipled
• unrealistic
• unreasonable
• unreserved
• unscrupulous
• unstable
• uppish
• uppity
• urgent
• vain
• vainglorious
• vital
• whimsical
• wilful
• willful

• acquiescent
• amenable
• balanced
• bashful
• compliant
• cowering
• cringing
• deferential
• democratic
• demure
• diffident
• disinterested
• dispassionate
• docile
• equal
• equitable
• ethical
• evenhanded
• fair
• fawning
• helpless
• honorable
• humble
• impartial
• incidental
• indecisive
• introverted
• irreproachable
• irresolute
• just
• law-abiding
• low-pressure
• lowly
• meek
• minor
• modest
• moral
• mousey
• mousy
• negligible
• noncritical
• nonpartisan
• nonthreatening
• nonurgent
• obedient
• objective
• overmodest
• passive
• principled
• quiet
• rational
• reasonable
• reserved
• resigned
• retiring
• safe
• self-critical
• self-doubting
• servile
• sheepish
• shrinking
• shy
• stable
• subdued
• submissive
• subservient
• timid
• tractable
• trivial
• unaggressive
• unarrogant
• unassertive
• unassuming
• unbiased
• understanding
• unimpeachable
• unimportant
• unobtrusive
• unprejudiced
• unpretentious
• weak
• yielding

• adjective
  1. Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
  2. Urgent.
  3. Imperial or regal.

• His imperious attitude made him unpopular with his colleagues at the office.
• The queen’s imperious command silenced the entire room.
• She spoke in such an imperious manner that no one dared to question her authority.
• The manager’s imperious behavior towards his staff created a tense work environment.
• The emperor ruled with an imperious hand, demanding absolute obedience from his subjects.

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