What is another word for authoritarian?
1460 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˌɔːθɔːɹɪtˈe͡əɹi͡ən], [ ˌɔːθɔːɹɪtˈeəɹiən], [ ˌɔː_θ_ɔː_ɹ_ɪ_t_ˈeə_ɹ_iə_n]
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Similar words for authoritarian:
- absolute (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- autarchic (adjective)
- authoritative (adjective)
- bossy (adjective)
- doctrinaire (adjective)
- dogmatic (adjective)
- domineering (adjective)
- high-handed (adjective)
- high-powered (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- powerful (adjective)
- severe (adjective)
- totalitarian (adjective)
- tyrannical (adjective)
- authoritarian (noun)
- autocrat (noun)
- dictator (noun)
- disciplinarian (noun)
- fascist (noun)
- martinet (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- strongman (noun)
- other synonyms
- Nazi
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Authoritarian:
adj.
• absolute (adjective) • all (adjective) • autarchic (adjective) • authoritative (adjective)- effective,
- peremptory,
- imperious,
- masterful,
- officious,
- consequential,
- arrogant,
- strong,
- effectual,
- commanding,
- impressive,
- influential,
- important,
- potent.
- in evitable,
- more excathedra,
- most reasoned,
- unerring,
- un qualified,
- in-evitable,
- more doctrinal,
- un changeable,
- un-qualified,
- most excathedra,
- as a matter course,
- un erring,
- un-changeable,
- most doctrinal,
- eternal,
- as matter course,
- un-erring,
- more deductive,
- more reasoned,
- most deductive,
- as matter of course.
- magisterial,
- severe,
- strict,
- rigid,
- harsh.
- doctrinal,
- ironhanded,
- ex cathedra,
- by nature,
- excathedra,
- in control,
- highhanded,
- despotic,
- bossy,
- one-party,
- in the saddle,
- ex-cathedra,
- by fiat,
- as a matter of course,
- powerful,
- absolute,
- dogmatic,
- deductive,
- totalitarian,
- by natural law,
- undemocratic,
- highpowered,
- fascistic,
- on faith,
- authoritative,
- totalistic,
- tyrannical.
- cool,
- obdurate,
- disciplined,
- blunt,
- exacting,
- censorious,
- rigorous,
- oppressive,
- demanding,
- stringent,
- gruff,
- hidebound,
- uncompromising,
- crisp,
- inflexible,
- critical,
- bleak,
- acute,
- brisk,
- sharp,
- imperial,
- dour,
- raw,
- dry,
- frosty,
- lean,
- intense,
- ascetic,
- acrimonious,
- acerbic,
- draconian,
- puritanical,
- short,
- precise,
- icy,
- strait-laced,
- meticulous,
- intolerant,
- piquant,
- fundamental,
- stark,
- obstinate,
- curt,
- brusque,
- spare,
- relentless,
- grim,
- keen,
- stern,
- caustic,
- austere,
- cutting,
- prudish,
- spartan,
- correct,
- chilly,
- basic,
- unbending,
- abrupt,
- tart,
- astringent.
- more oneparty,
- most totalistic,
- most fascistic,
- most oneparty,
- one party,
- most one party,
- most communist,
- more one-party,
- un-democratic,
- most undemocratic,
- more fascistic,
- most one-party,
- oneparty,
- most nazi,
- un democratic,
- more nazi,
- more totalistic,
- more communist,
- more one party,
- more undemocratic.
n.
-
•
- unforgiving.
- teachers,
- sundowners,
- strict teacher,
- formalists,
- enforcer,
- sundowner,
- sergeant,
- sergeants,
- Formalist,
- drill sergeant,
- enforcers.
Other synonyms:
• Nazi-
•
- hardline,
- unyielding,
- tough love,
- rigor.
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•
- despot.
-
•
- iron.
- piercing,
- hoodlum,
- accomplice,
- numb,
- abruptly,
- bungling,
- astringent drug,
- contemptuous,
- eventful,
- parliamentary law,
- tenacious,
- beggarly,
- blue,
- mingy,
- outstanding,
- self-reliant,
- right-down,
- blue-blooded,
- inerrant,
- seat,
- bastardly,
- average,
- tot,
- disagreeable,
- dangerous,
- dull,
- add together,
- aristocratical,
- decree,
- engaging,
- utter,
- monastic order,
- cocksure,
- angle,
- alert,
- bigheaded,
- birthday suit,
- immobile,
- merry,
- out-and-out,
- ascetical,
- surd,
- serjeant-at-law,
- toughened,
- crease,
- caesarism,
- square,
- crispy,
- monocracy,
- stuck-up,
- contrary,
- intend,
- keister,
- barren,
- dim,
- specialise,
- naked,
- dreary,
- firmly,
- bum,
- capitalistic,
- dictated,
- persnickety,
- unkind,
- convinced,
- froward,
- short-change,
- pocket-sized,
- footling,
- limiting,
- constant,
- in the altogether,
- unkindly,
- counterbalance,
- despotism,
- bouldery,
- grand,
- bipartizan,
- acuate,
- high-voltage,
- chilli,
- moody,
- eonian,
- left-handed,
- needlelike,
- difficult,
- cool down,
- run,
- dominate,
- independent,
- strong-arm,
- straight-from-the-shoulder,
- regularize,
- muscular,
- hardly,
- impregnable,
- grisly,
- crowned head,
- near-blind,
- sound,
- downcast,
- knockout,
- monumental,
- feudalistic,
- bullyrag,
- unornamented,
- fancy woman,
- dogged,
- continuant,
- queen,
- higher-up,
- royal,
- starring,
- rescript,
- dispirited,
- dark,
- mogul,
- iron out,
- grave,
- scant,
- low,
- fine,
- realty,
- slight,
- nifty,
- dim-sighted,
- self-assertive,
- hoarse,
- meddling,
- sand-blind,
- elusive,
- male monarch,
- sort out,
- elder,
- downright,
- society,
- obese,
- gild,
- mean value,
- lake superior,
- bucolic,
- neat,
- contract,
- rocky,
- wayward,
- high-octane,
- royalist,
- polar,
- candid,
- posterior,
- cold,
- ostentatious,
- vivid,
- add,
- husky,
- rimy,
- legal,
- surplus,
- roughshod,
- patrician,
- abrasive,
- stark naked,
- masterly,
- glowering,
- willful,
- chili,
- lofty,
- grievous,
- gross,
- peasant,
- trivial,
- inhuman,
- efficient,
- fast,
- excessive,
- nates,
- crusty,
- world-beater,
- chevalier,
- dandy,
- didactical,
- snot-nosed,
- government activity,
- hindquarters,
- ghastly,
- positivistic,
- full,
- corking,
- insulting,
- unswerving,
- forgetful,
- light,
- henchman,
- superordinate,
- tzar,
- govern,
- tight-laced,
- untouched,
- never-ending,
- piffling,
- prohibitionist,
- succinct,
- swagger,
- bottom,
- root,
- staunch,
- herculean,
- baron,
- black,
- granitelike,
- towering,
- confining,
- virtuoso,
- drumhead,
- dingy,
- peg down,
- old,
- rowdy,
- scornful,
- good,
- supernumerary,
- juiceless,
- emphasized,
- regimen,
- redress,
- grade,
- sick,
- inexhaustible,
- be given,
- decisive,
- drear,
- sullen,
- peeled,
- press clipping,
- cocotte,
- tangy,
- uppish,
- life-threatening,
- all right,
- police sergeant,
- autarkical,
- set up,
- problematical,
- compulsive,
- jubilant,
- satisfying,
- unshakable,
- rear,
- even up,
- wealthy,
- knotty,
- consecrate,
- extra,
- corpulent,
- constituent,
- harlot,
- after part,
- erosive,
- ageless,
- martin luther king jr.,
- incontrovertible,
- naked as a jaybird,
- loyal,
- moneyed,
- fanatic,
- fed,
- smoothing iron,
- unsubduable,
- unopen,
- inclination,
- slant,
- exclamatory,
- one-man rule,
- opinion,
- styptic,
- overlooking,
- glacial,
- by right of office,
- rocklike,
- headstrong,
- unforesightful,
- prevalent,
- unattackable,
- real,
- self-asserting,
- free-spoken,
- sibilant,
- barbarous,
- tauten,
- gentle,
- unawares,
- entire,
- hunky-dory,
- acerb,
- unembellished,
- poor,
- majuscule,
- assuredness,
- traditionalist,
- flush,
- magnate,
- high-power,
- myopic,
- sceptred,
- cussed,
- downhearted,
- leaning,
- tip,
- thoroughgoing,
- reigning,
- shockable,
- ordinate,
- aggregate,
- visually challenged,
- everlasting,
- swashbuckling,
- come,
- sorry,
- fiat,
- virulent,
- redundant,
- morose,
- peachy,
- hector,
- aged,
- inclemency,
- fe,
- lower-ranking,
- ironic,
- save,
- stabbing,
- problematic,
- tormenter,
- pertinacious,
- material,
- lodge,
- capitalist economy,
- rump,
- outspoken,
- integral,
- lord,
- film editing,
- brutish,
- flat,
- complete,
- pocket-size,
- hateful,
- shut,
- unending,
- spirant,
- forceful,
- arrant,
- precipitous,
- flint,
- in the buff,
- remorseless,
- knifelike,
- profound,
- hood,
- modest,
- put,
- sealed,
- terrible,
- infrangible,
- severity,
- national socialist,
- base,
- curmudgeonly,
- built-in,
- spectacular,
- corrosive,
- prevailing,
- nippy,
- stiffness,
- straight-laced,
- inviolable,
- compensate,
- pushful,
- prescribe,
- prostitute,
- shrewd,
- serjeant,
- organic,
- sour,
- granitic,
- prescribed,
- self-important,
- laborious,
- lilliputian,
- loaded,
- coolheaded,
- nonindulgent,
- slap-up,
- frank,
- close-minded,
- driven,
- refreshful,
- confirming,
- czar,
- indifferent,
- savory,
- house,
- fundamental frequency,
- suddenly,
- spanking,
- tally,
- kinky,
- double-dyed,
- lancinating,
- governance,
- petty larceny,
- concluded,
- sulphurous,
- press cutting,
- rank,
- benumb,
- lancinate,
- thorough,
- miserly,
- stingy,
- sergeant-at-law,
- rife,
- electropositive,
- number,
- affluent,
- subaltern,
- lemonlike,
- terse,
- press,
- totality,
- belittled,
- imply,
- unfluctuating,
- heavy,
- bare-assed,
- sovereignty,
- chasten,
- tell,
- clamorous,
- rejoicing,
- ruffian,
- wrinkle,
- dead,
- wry,
- inadequate,
- victor,
- vitriolic,
- intimidation,
- dogmatist,
- hearty,
- wintry,
- positively charged,
- introductory,
- victorian,
- strong-armer,
- gravid,
- backbreaking,
- almighty,
- terminated,
- efficacious,
- cutting off,
- brawny,
- august,
- refractory,
- tush,
- purple,
- say,
- ordination,
- star,
- rigourousness,
- definitive,
- rectify,
- solid,
- behind,
- push around,
- lead,
- member of parliament,
- overconfident,
- large,
- setup,
- acutely,
- tooshie,
- lavish,
- beastly,
- smashing,
- imperative mood,
- depressed,
- overzealous,
- unpitying,
- punishing,
- sovietism,
- specify,
- staple,
- piddling,
- canonical,
- canonic,
- minuscule,
- materfamilias,
- slip,
- nail down,
- baffling,
- irrefutable,
- perfect,
- rude,
- entail,
- munificent,
- prissy,
- federalise,
- minor,
- shrill,
- steady,
- aeonian,
- elderly,
- with child,
- master,
- plainspoken,
- buttocks,
- acrid,
- puritanic,
- thin,
- normative,
- edict,
- vicious,
- dispense with,
- tight,
- arduous,
- imperial beard,
- nappy,
- discriminating,
- repetitive,
- lively,
- woman of the street,
- sang-froid,
- autarky,
- truehearted,
- democratise,
- expectant,
- soaring,
- top executive,
- republic,
- totalism,
- striking,
- regularise,
- groovy,
- swayer,
- too big for one's breeches,
- stalinism,
- superscript,
- clipping,
- capital,
- unretentive,
- secondary,
- ok,
- insensate,
- milkweed butterfly,
- exquisite,
- adjust,
- desolate,
- politics,
- amount,
- cool off,
- enjoin,
- newspaper clipping,
- opinionative,
- new,
- supplanter,
- ham-fisted,
- nipping,
- whore,
- real property,
- unconsidered,
- detrition,
- toughie,
- rattling,
- priggish,
- junior-grade,
- central,
- fundament,
- order of magnitude,
- knock-down,
- prevail,
- real estate,
- polite,
- rigour,
- ended,
- rigorousness,
- range,
- naturally,
- sourish,
- exultant,
- in the lead,
- clamant,
- roughneck,
- two-party,
- browbeat,
- positive degree,
- restricting,
- meanspirited,
- antecedent,
- unbendable,
- exuberant,
- federated,
- altogether,
- higher-ranking,
- fanny,
- preponderating,
- sheer,
- busybodied,
- butt,
- inerrable,
- underlying,
- oligarchical,
- warm,
- intemperate,
- think of,
- hatchet man,
- riley b king,
- pin down,
- incline,
- diminished,
- compendious,
- union soldier,
- yobbo,
- low-spirited,
- prim,
- stand for,
- carving,
- brusk,
- band together,
- esteemed,
- hardship,
- ancestor,
- minute,
- grueling,
- blatant,
- tycoon,
- shogunate,
- swell,
- poise,
- confederative,
- unassailable,
- self-directed,
- saturnine,
- unaired,
- not bad,
- furrowed,
- thug,
- disconsolate,
- categoric,
- jejune,
- arctic,
- drab,
- limitless,
- unadulterated,
- brisk up,
- ordain,
- distinguished,
- edged,
- tender,
- visually impaired,
- tormentor,
- in effect,
- gruesome,
- sensitive,
- vociferous,
- penetrating,
- place,
- unfaltering,
- yobo,
- humble,
- constitutive,
- power,
- authorities,
- vital,
- rabid,
- ague,
- fixed,
- preponderant,
- frizzy,
- political science,
- purchase order,
- teetotal,
- list,
- high-energy,
- castigate,
- airless,
- grandiose,
- unstinted,
- lemony,
- prat,
- broken,
- derriere,
- think,
- regulate,
- plus,
- lament,
- backside,
- functionary,
- regal,
- have in mind,
- older,
- compact,
- cut,
- extravagant,
- confident,
- rules of order,
- la-di-da,
- rimed,
- sore,
- objurgate,
- bang-up,
- commonwealth,
- scanty,
- bestial,
- sturdy,
- thinning,
- brisken,
- ruffianly,
- crinkle,
- rule,
- savage,
- steadfastly,
- obtuse,
- severely,
- chastise,
- rough,
- unstinting,
- ill-judged,
- mordant,
- arse,
- bolshevism,
- attrition,
- constringe,
- punctilious,
- diamond,
- in the raw,
- sharp-worded,
- ascensive,
- collaborator,
- persistent,
- signify,
- buns,
- exulting,
- ahead,
- savoury,
- gruelling,
- hooligan,
- ironical,
- sporting lady,
- fresh,
- refreshing,
- scrunch up,
- positivist,
- gloomy,
- inexorable,
- key,
- ham-handed,
- tot up,
- snappy,
- chili pepper,
- tilt,
- blistering,
- leadership,
- substantive,
- handless,
- curtly,
- federal soldier,
- first harmonic,
- deafen,
- atomic number 26,
- unlikable,
- asperity,
- acute accent,
- scrunch,
- penetrative,
- tail end,
- part with,
- significant,
- frizzly,
- cogency,
- unrepentant,
- inherent,
- jussive mood,
- improvident,
- club,
- allied,
- bracing,
- patriot,
- sodding,
- business firm,
- dominant allele,
- boss around,
- never-say-die,
- sinewy,
- inbuilt,
- add up,
- pure,
- mightily,
- unaffected,
- straightlaced,
- crying,
- free,
- concentrated,
- sneering,
- acid,
- repressing,
- specialize,
- set,
- niggling,
- toast,
- tend,
- accurate,
- cracking,
- business leader,
- perverse,
- perpetual,
- cogent,
- unhesitating,
- punk,
- point-blank,
- crude,
- fiddling,
- frozen,
- interminable,
- imposing,
- dismal,
- authoritarianism,
- blustery,
- glum,
- in force,
- too-generous,
- skimpy,
- rudimentary,
- sum,
- bad,
- federalize,
- serious,
- consummate,
- in-situ,
- give up,
- poop,
- stabile,
- staring,
- brute,
- chile,
- administration,
- unceasing,
- trim,
- massive,
- down in the mouth,
- meddlesome,
- ceaseless,
- plain,
- lady of pleasure,
- sure,
- fifth wheel,
- summate,
- validity,
- salient,
- right,
- sharply,
- majestic,
- constrict,
- discipline,
- rear end,
- regnant,
- down,
- sum-up,
- gelid,
- disconnected,
- intransigent,
- unmovable,
- predominate,
- tonic,
- emphasised,
- even out,
- slump,
- guild,
- constraining,
- closed in,
- telling,
- cardinal,
- endless,
- working girl,
- snide,
- hefty,
- sceptered,
- cyprian,
- supererogatory,
- sum up,
- picayune,
- chill,
- aplomb,
- busy,
- unfair,
- hard-line,
- short-circuit,
- potato chip,
- unwaveringly,
- overgenerous,
- stellar,
- dictate,
- ass,
- rate,
- high,
- can,
- immoveable,
- laconic,
- republican river,
- heavily,
- constricting,
- abstainer,
- ill-considered,
- o'er,
- crucial,
- excess,
- astute,
- grimness,
- stinging,
- bouldered,
- monarch butterfly,
- interfering,
- fricative,
- all over,
- unlikeable,
- raucous,
- natural,
- overriding,
- stiff,
- outright,
- butterfingered,
- enceinte,
- frigid,
- square-toed,
- unappealing,
- hind end,
- severeness,
- primal,
- incessant,
- even off,
- coarse,
- unregenerate,
- big,
- unconditional,
- close,
- chip,
- small-scale,
- salty,
- stodgy,
- sulfurous,
- petit larceny,
- parliamentary procedure,
- branding iron,
- bumbling,
- ascendent,
- wicked,
- goon,
- lowly,
- unwavering,
- sublime,
- ordering,
- triumphal,
- éminence grise,
- orderliness,
- bawd,
- inequitable,
- crispen,
- instant,
- chesty,
- hard-and-fast,
- forbidding,
- make up,
- superfluous,
- federal official,
- matriarchate,
- social club,
- nationalistic,
- military junta,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- honored,
- ballyrag,
- exact,
- quarter,
- partner in crime,
- fourth-year,
- fell,
- union,
- holy order,
- shortly,
- cast-iron,
- imperative form,
- uppity,
- shortstop,
- straight-out,
- okay,
- deaden,
- forthright,
- dogmatical,
- toilsome,
- patriarchate,
- abrasion,
- narrow down,
- unsanded,
- bare-ass,
- intemperately,
- inhibitory,
- big businessman,
- unvoiced,
- dry out,
- zesty,
- tote up,
- arrange,
- macabre,
- of import,
- parky,
- tail,
- unappeasable,
- rotund,
- narrowing,
- highfaluting,
- self-opinionated,
- bitter,
- secure,
- bare,
- triumphant,
- virile,
- totalitarianism,
- paramount,
- spare part,
- fastidious,
- nerveless,
- voiceless,
- incisive,
- yob,
- ill-humoured,
- popular,
- decline,
- ill-humored,
- ruckle,
- two-way,
- street fighter,
- prima,
- zippy.
- petty,
- mean,
- ramrod,
- monarchic,
- lordly,
- pretentious,
- immovable,
- patriarchal,
- gubernatorial,
- bigoted,
- bully,
- deaf,
- monarch,
- big brother,
- supercilious,
- potentate,
- bureaucratic,
- nazi,
- repressive,
- omnipotent,
- parliamentarian,
- hifalutin,
- total,
- parochial,
- adamantine,
- hegemonistic,
- unsparing,
- closed,
- provincial,
- bullying,
- parliamentary,
- doughty,
- dominating,
- insular,
- theocratic,
- aristocratic,
- prestigious,
- Borne,
- prideful,
- certain,
- Stony-hearted,
- great,
- nearsighted,
- little,
- summary,
- ranking,
- narrow,
- political,
- clothed with authority,
- resolute,
- official,
- ruthless,
- restrictive,
- hard,
- feudal,
- preeminent,
- stony,
- king,
- pluralistic,
- absolutistic,
- arbitrary,
- eminent,
- mighty,
- matriarchal,
- exigent,
- competent,
- self-governing,
- brutal,
- unlimited,
- momentous,
- small-minded,
- cruel,
- civil,
- prominent,
- small,
- considerable,
- Simon Legree,
- authoritarians,
- narrow-minded,
- ruler,
- fanatical,
- categorical,
- steadfast,
- ascendant,
- steely,
- authorized,
- monolithic,
- imperative,
- empowered,
- indomitable,
- unsympathetic,
- wilful,
- pitiless,
- narrow gauge,
- illiberal,
- positive,
- patriarchic,
- controlling,
- oligarchic,
- civic,
- senior,
- republican,
- cramped,
- Iron-fisted,
- uncharitable,
- Hegemonic,
- superior,
- constitutional,
- leading,
- hitler,
- federal,
- Overruling,
- authorised,
- bigot,
- puissant,
- closed-minded,
- Oligarchal,
- unremitting,
- unjust,
- Magistral,
- constricted,
- tough,
- all-powerful,
- insistent,
- autonomous,
- unrelenting,
- overlord,
- determined,
- prescriptive,
- matriarchic,
- heavy-handed,
- grinding,
- straitlaced,
- shortsighted,
- moralist,
- ungenerous,
- adamant,
- flinty,
- Heteronomous,
- cold-blooded,
- opinionated,
- purblind,
- snotty,
- Hard-hearted,
- assertive,
- stuffy,
- cavalier,
- federalist,
- ex officio,
- monarchial,
- Mean-spirited,
- ruling,
- constrictive,
- unmoved,
- highfalutin,
- suppressive,
- self-willed,
- haughty,
- stickler,
- predominant,
- supreme,
- monarchal,
- governing,
- emphatic,
- rugged,
- weighty,
- inconsiderate,
- hoity-toity,
- firm,
- pushy,
- snooty,
- governmental,
- overweening,
- substantial,
- dominant,
- didactic.
Paraphrases for Authoritarian:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
autocratic, despotic, dictatorial.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
authoritarianism.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Other Related
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Adjective
authoritative, centralized, totalitarian, tyrannical.
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Adjective
Hypernym for Authoritarian:
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person
big brother, martinet, moralist, disciplinarian.
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person
Hyponym for Authoritarian:
n.
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person
oppressor.
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