Synonyms for Authoritative:

• adj.

  •accepted (adjective)
  • undisputed.
  •accountable, in charge (adjective)
  • responsible.
  •accurate (adjective)
  • veracious,
  • most unrefuted,
  • un-refuted,
  • un-impeachable,
  • more unrefuted,
  • perfect,
  • ex-act,
  • de-finite,
  • de finite,
  • ex act,
  • un questionable,
  • un-questionable,
  • un-deniable,
  • un deniable,
  • un refuted,
  • un impeachable.
  •administrative (adjective)
  • more organizational,
  • more policy-making,
  • more bureaucratic,
  • more supervising,
  • more directing,
  • super vising,
  • most policy making,
  • more jurisdictional,
  • more superintending,
  • more departmental,
  • pre siding,
  • super-intending,
  • super intending,
  • policymaking,
  • more directive,
  • more regulative,
  • most supervising,
  • most departmental,
  • organizational,
  • most policymaking,
  • most directing,
  • more policymaking,
  • pre-siding,
  • most organizational,
  • most regulative,
  • most superintending,
  • most policy-making,
  • super-vising,
  • most directive,
  • most jurisdictional,
  • more policy making,
  • Policy Making,
  • most bureaucratic.
  •all (adjective)
  • definitive,
  • authoritative,
  • important.
  •authentic (adjective)
  • re-liabler,
  • twentyfour carat,
  • re-liable,
  • re liable,
  • twenty four carat,
  • re liablest,
  • re liabler,
  • re-liablest.
  •authoritarian (adjective)
  • most disciplinarian,
  • un yielding,
  • un-yielding,
  • more disciplinarian,
  • severe.
  •authoritative (adjective)
  • consequential,
  • masterful,
  • commanding,
  • arrogant,
  • effective,
  • strong,
  • autocratic,
  • effectual,
  • dictatorial,
  • impressive,
  • scriptural.
  •bona fide (adjective)
  • card-carrying,
  • good-faith,
  • with good faith,
  • true to life.
  •canonical (adjective)
  • received.
  •certain (adjective)
  • confirmable,
  • safest,
  • SAFER,
  • unassailable,
  • on ice,
  • having down pat,
  • incontestable,
  • inarguable,
  • undisputable,
  • positive,
  • establishable,
  • evident,
  • in the bag,
  • unerring.
  •doctrinaire (adjective)
  • stubborn,
  • doctrinaire,
  • dictative,
  • stiff-necked.
  •dogmatic (adjective)
  • as a matter course,
  • as matter course,
  • more deductive,
  • more reasoned,
  • most doctrinal,
  • most excathedra,
  • more doctrinal,
  • in evitable,
  • more excathedra,
  • un-qualified,
  • un changeable,
  • most reasoned,
  • eternal,
  • peremptory,
  • most deductive,
  • in-evitable,
  • as matter of course,
  • un qualified,
  • un-changeable.
  •dominant (adjective)
  • sur-passing,
  • fore most,
  • more surpassing,
  • more predominate,
  • most overbalancing,
  • out-weighing,
  • most surpassing,
  • preponderant,
  • pre eminent,
  • most predominate,
  • pre-dominate,
  • pre-vailing,
  • pre dominate,
  • more overbalancing,
  • more obtaining,
  • out weighing,
  • Over-bearing,
  • prevailing,
  • sur passing,
  • most outweighing,
  • para-mount,
  • over bearing,
  • most obtaining,
  • over-weighing,
  • most overweighing,
  • over weighing,
  • more prevalent,
  • para mount,
  • fore-most,
  • more transcendent,
  • pre vailing,
  • over-balancing,
  • more overweighing,
  • more outweighing,
  • over balancing.
  •domineering (adjective)
  • imperative,
  • assertive,
  • masterly,
  • dominating,
  • self-assured,
  • confident.
  •expert (adjective)
  • expert,
  • sophisticated,
  • crackerjack,
  • adept,
  • skillful,
  • artistic,
  • adroit,
  • professional.
  •governing (adjective)
  • most ordering,
  • Overseeing,
  • more ordering,
  • more presidential,
  • over-seeing,
  • over seeing,
  • most gubernatorial,
  • re straining,
  • more mastering,
  • most mastering,
  • more overseeing,
  • most overseeing,
  • more conducting,
  • most conducting,
  • gubernatorial,
  • re-straining,
  • most presidential,
  • more gubernatorial.
  •high-powered (adjective)
  • in saddle,
  • high powered.
  •imperious (adjective)
  • ex acting,
  • re-quired,
  • over-weening,
  • high-handed,
  • high handed,
  • re quired,
  • overweening,
  • more compulsatory,
  • ex-acting,
  • most compulsatory,
  • over weening.
  •incontestable (adjective)
  • in-contestable,
  • in contestable.
  •infallible (adjective)
  • inerrant,
  • surefire,
  • Undeceivable,
  • inerrable,
  • apodictic.
  •influential (adjective)
  • hotdog,
  • motivational,
  • controlling,
  • leading,
  • namer,
  • big-gun,
  • supreme,
  • prejudicial,
  • big gun,
  • big-wheel,
  • senior,
  • ruling,
  • hot-dog.
  •judicial (adjective)
  • juridical,
  • judicial,
  • Juristic,
  • legalistic,
  • judgelike,
  • judiciary.
  •official (adjective)
  • most cathedral,
  • re-cognized,
  • most authenticated,
  • ex officio,
  • re cognized,
  • more cathedral,
  • more authenticated,
  • most certified.
  •official, authorized (adjective)
  • legitimate.
  •oracular (adjective)
  • sibylline,
  • portentous,
  • Predicting.
  •orthodox (adjective)
  • according to the book,
  • die hard,
  • straight arrow,
  • well-established,
  • by numbers,
  • in line,
  • old line,
  • old-line,
  • oldline,
  • buttoned-down.
  •potent (adjective)
  • more gogetter,
  • gogetter,
  • fullbodied,
  • most go-getter,
  • more go getter,
  • go getter,
  • most go getter,
  • more powerhouse,
  • most gogetter,
  • ball fire,
  • most powerhouse,
  • puissant,
  • more go-getter,
  • full bodied.
  •powerful (adjective)
  • all-powerful,
  • mighty,
  • wieldy,
  • energetic,
  • high-powered,
  • vigorous,
  • competent,
  • Strengthy,
  • forceful.
  •predominant (adjective)
  • over-powering,
  • holding reins,
  • pre dominant,
  • over powering,
  • pre-dominant,
  • holding the reins.
  •recognized as true, valid (adjective)
  • authenticated,
  • scholarly,
  • straight from horse's mouth,
  • Circumstantiated,
  • righteous,
  • attested,
  • proven,
  • documented,
  • confirmed,
  • learned,
  • validated,
  • legit,
  • veritable,
  • supported,
  • verified,
  • truthful.
  •responsible (adjective)
  • most compelled,
  • most contracted,
  • most decisionmaking,
  • dutybound,
  • more decision making,
  • most duty bound,
  • most duty-bound,
  • more compelled,
  • carrying load,
  • more hampered,
  • decisionmaking,
  • duty bound,
  • most fettered,
  • most hampered,
  • minding store,
  • most decision making,
  • more decision-making,
  • on hook,
  • more decisionmaking,
  • ex posed,
  • ex-posed,
  • more contracted,
  • fettered,
  • more fettered,
  • most decision-making,
  • more dutybound,
  • more duty-bound,
  • more duty bound,
  • most dutybound,
  • at helm.
  •royal (adjective)
  • queenlier,
  • queenly,
  • re-splendent.
  •sagacious (adjective)
  • master,
  • wise,
  • intelligent,
  • brilliant,
  • sagacious,
  • intellectual,
  • genius,
  • philosophic.
  •sound (adjective)
  • standing up,
  • holding water,
  • GOEST,
  • goer,
  • hanging together,
  • holding up in wash,
  • holding together,
  • all there.
  •standard (adjective)
  • more regulation,
  • more boilerplate,
  • most regulation,
  • most boilerplate.
  •true (adjective)
  • washer,
  • on target,
  • sure enough,
  • sure-enough,
  • unfaked,
  • Undesigning,
  • veridical.
  •trustworthy (adjective)
  • sainter,
  • down home,
  • saintest,
  • rockest,
  • true blue,
  • level headed.
  •trustworthy/trusty (adjective)
  • more trustable,
  • most up-front,
  • trueblue,
  • therer,
  • most up front,
  • be trusted,
  • most trustable,
  • more up-front,
  • more up front,
  • more upfront,
  • on level,
  • therest,
  • on up up,
  • most upfront,
  • on up,
  • on and up.
  •undisputable (adjective)
  • un-disputable,
  • un disputable.
  •undisputed (adjective)
  • un-disputed,
  • un disputed.
  •undisputed/undisputable (adjective)
  • most unquestioned,
  • more unquestioned,
  • more uncontested,
  • un questioned,
  • most unchallenged,
  • un-questioned,
  • un contested,
  • un challenged,
  • un-challenged,
  • in-disputable,
  • un-contested,
  • in disputable,
  • most uncontested,
  • more unchallenged.
  •valid (adjective)
  • de-terminative,
  • un adulterated,
  • un corrupted,
  • wellfounded,
  • most unanswerable,
  • de terminative,
  • most attested,
  • more unanswerable,
  • more attested,
  • more valid,
  • un-answerable,
  • wellgrounded,
  • well grounded,
  • un answerable,
  • un-corrupted,
  • un-adulterated.

• n.

  •
  • realistic,
  • trustworthy,
  • definite,
  • definitely,
  • reliable,
  • factual,
  • undeniable,
  • firm,
  • objective,
  • dependable.
  •
  • prescriptive,
  • governing,
  • reigning,
  • bossy,
  • interfering,
  • valid,
  • sovereign,
  • unauthorized,
  • legal,
  • illegal,
  • decisive,
  • on someone's back,
  • intrusive,
  • meddlesome,
  • weighty,
  • imposing,
  • lawful,
  • approved,
  • executive,
  • mandatory,
  • imperial.
  •
  • officious.
  •
  • decide.
  •
  • over.
  •authorised (noun)
  • authorised.
  •authoritative (noun)
  • classical,
  • authorized.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • parliamentary,
  • determinative.
  •
  • sanctioned,
  • officially.
  •
  • convincing,
  • conclusive,
  • faithful,
  • credible.
  •
  • final.
  •lawmaking
  • legislative.
  •ruling
  • power.

Paraphrases for Authoritative:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    reputable, definitive, conclusive, respected, autocratic, permissible, documented, licensed, well-informed, prominent, valid, crucial, renowned, assertive, bossy, relevant, powerful, accredited, truthful, reference, well-documented, compelling, binding, resolute, benchmark, expert, authenticated, convincing, preeminent, empowered, firm, FIDE, rigorous, believable, weighty.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    authentic, authoritarian, reliable, trustworthy, influential, prestigious, credible, dependable, competent, decisive, accurate, serious, robust, strong, distinguished, leading, solid, genuine, authority, unequivocal.
  • Proper noun, singular
    authority.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    authority.

Antonyms for Authoritative:

• adj.

  • domineering
    indecisive.
  • recognized as true, valid
    undependable, inaccurate, untrustworthy, dishonest, unreliable, irresponsible, democratic, untruthful, false.
  • Other antonyms:
    yielding, complaisant, helpless, ductile, irresolute, mild, lowly, accountable, tractable, limited, unassuming, uninfluential, submissive, contingent, conditional, meek, amenable, acquiescent, weak, incapable, responsible, nonstandard, impotent, powerless, lenient, obedient, gentle, resigned, compliant, humble, unable, passive, docile, constitutional, modest.

Homophones for Authoritative:

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