Synonyms for Authority:

• n.

  •
  • approval,
  • clearance,
  • dispensation,
  • exemption,
  • jurisdiction.
  •
  • almanac,
  • anthology,
  • autobiography,
  • bible,
  • weight,
  • bestseller,
  • blook.
  •
  • bureaucracy,
  • cabinet,
  • greatness,
  • leadership,
  • monopoly,
  • oligopoly,
  • police.
  •
  • critic.
  •
  • club,
  • dominion,
  • guild,
  • setup,
  • structure.
  •
  • official,
  • pundit,
  • veteran.
  •
  • competency.
  •
  • ace,
  • dab,
  • past master,
  • proficient,
  • dab hand.
  •artist (noun)
  • artiste.
  •attribute (noun)
  • authorisation,
  • authorization,
  • dominance,
  • potency,
  • say-so.
  •authority (noun)
  • agency,
  • assurance,
  • authorisation,
  • authorization,
  • birthright,
  • bureau,
  • charge,
  • clout,
  • cogency,
  • command,
  • commission,
  • confidence,
  • control,
  • credential,
  • dominance,
  • domination,
  • empowerment,
  • enfranchisement,
  • entitlement,
  • faculty,
  • federal agency,
  • force,
  • government agency,
  • influence,
  • kingship,
  • license,
  • mandate,
  • mastery,
  • might,
  • mightiness,
  • office,
  • potency,
  • power,
  • powerfulness,
  • precedence,
  • prerogative,
  • prestige,
  • primacy,
  • privilege,
  • puissance,
  • punch,
  • purview,
  • rank,
  • right,
  • sanction,
  • say-so,
  • scepter,
  • self-assurance,
  • self-confidence,
  • seniority,
  • sovereignty,
  • stature,
  • steam,
  • strength,
  • superiority,
  • sureness,
  • sway,
  • title,
  • Prepotency.
  •authorization (noun)
  • sanction,
  • warrant.
  •bureaucracy (noun)
  • officialdom.
  •command (noun)
  • coordination,
  • direction,
  • discipline,
  • government,
  • grasp,
  • grip,
  • hold,
  • law,
  • management,
  • prowess,
  • reign,
  • rule,
  • supremacy,
  • will.
  •control (noun)
  • juice.
  •diploma (noun)
  • sheepskin.
  •expert (noun)
  • adept,
  • artist,
  • buff,
  • connoisseur,
  • consultant,
  • crackerjack,
  • expert,
  • genius,
  • journeyman,
  • maven,
  • pro,
  • professional,
  • sophisticate,
  • specialist,
  • technician,
  • whiz,
  • wizard.
  •expert, animate or inanimate (noun)
  • arbiter,
  • aristocrat,
  • bible,
  • big cheese,
  • big shot,
  • boss,
  • brass,
  • buff,
  • ceo,
  • city hall,
  • connoisseur,
  • czar,
  • egghead,
  • establishment,
  • executive,
  • expert,
  • governor,
  • guru,
  • judge,
  • kingfish,
  • kingpin,
  • law,
  • pro,
  • professional,
  • professor,
  • pundit,
  • scholar,
  • specialist,
  • textbook,
  • top brass,
  • top dog,
  • upstairs,
  • veteran,
  • virtuoso,
  • whiz,
  • wizard,
  • EXEC,
  • Brains,
  • FEDS,
  • top hand,
  • power elite,
  • ivory dome.
  •importance (noun)
  • significance,
  • weight.
  •influence (noun)
  • bias,
  • importance,
  • motivation,
  • predominance,
  • pressure,
  • pull.
  •judge (noun)
  • adjudicator,
  • administrator,
  • arbitrator,
  • censor,
  • judge,
  • judiciary,
  • justice,
  • lord chancellor,
  • magistrate,
  • mediator,
  • moderator,
  • negotiator,
  • reconciler,
  • referee,
  • umpire,
  • his honor,
  • his lordship.
  •justice (noun)
  • justness.
  •legitimacy (noun)
  • legality,
  • legitimacy.
  •master (noun)
  • abbot,
  • captain,
  • chief,
  • commandant,
  • commander,
  • dean,
  • director,
  • executive,
  • governor,
  • guru,
  • head,
  • headmaster,
  • headmistress,
  • kingpin,
  • landlady,
  • landlord,
  • leader,
  • lord,
  • maestro,
  • mahatma,
  • manager,
  • mandarin,
  • master,
  • mother,
  • officer,
  • president,
  • principal,
  • proprietor,
  • proprietress,
  • quartermaster,
  • ruler,
  • senior,
  • sire,
  • squire,
  • star,
  • titleholder.
  •power (noun)
  • competence,
  • energy,
  • vigor.
  •power, control (noun)
  • ascendancy,
  • authorization,
  • beef,
  • charge,
  • clout,
  • command,
  • credit,
  • domination,
  • dominion,
  • edge,
  • esteem,
  • force,
  • goods,
  • government,
  • guts,
  • influence,
  • juice,
  • jump,
  • jurisdiction,
  • license,
  • mastery,
  • might,
  • permission,
  • permit,
  • pizzazz,
  • pow,
  • powerhouse,
  • prerogative,
  • prestige,
  • punch,
  • right,
  • rule,
  • say,
  • say-so,
  • steam,
  • strength,
  • stuff,
  • supremacy,
  • sway,
  • upper hand,
  • warrant,
  • weight,
  • whip hand,
  • word,
  • zap,
  • ropes,
  • leg up,
  • might and main.
  •rank (noun)
  • hierarchy.
  •regime (noun)
  • regency.
  •reputation (noun)
  • dependability,
  • rep,
  • repute,
  • trustworthiness.
  •royalty (noun)
  • kingship.
  •sage (noun)
  • doctor,
  • intellectual,
  • philosopher,
  • professor,
  • sage,
  • savant,
  • scholar,
  • thinker,
  • wise person.
  •superiority (noun)
  • transcendence.
  •supremacy (noun)
  • dominance,
  • omnipotence.
  •validation (noun)
  • authentication,
  • authorization,
  • certification,
  • confirmation,
  • substantiation,
  • validation,
  • verification.
  •vantage (noun)
  • vantage.

• v.

  •control (verb)
  • mastership.
  •judge (verb)
  • arbiter.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • almanac,
  • anthology,
  • approval,
  • autobiography,
  • basis,
  • bible,
  • booklet,
  • clearance,
  • cognoscenti,
  • dismissal,
  • dominion,
  • exemption,
  • free rein,
  • generalist,
  • gentlewoman,
  • grad,
  • greatness,
  • guild,
  • handbook,
  • hardback,
  • hardcover,
  • headship,
  • hierarchy,
  • leadership,
  • licentiate,
  • literature,
  • lordship,
  • luminary,
  • old-timer,
  • oligopoly,
  • parliament,
  • past master,
  • picture book,
  • powerhouse,
  • prospectus,
  • pundit,
  • quarto,
  • regimentation,
  • royalty,
  • softback,
  • supervision,
  • toleration,
  • use,
  • veto,
  • yearbook,
  • kahuna,
  • bestseller,
  • dab hand,
  • blook.
  •
  • access,
  • ace,
  • admission,
  • cabinet,
  • catalog,
  • chair,
  • clutch,
  • collector,
  • competency,
  • critic,
  • department,
  • dictation,
  • directory,
  • dispensation,
  • force majeure,
  • gospel,
  • jurisdiction,
  • miscellany,
  • monolith,
  • monopoly,
  • muscle,
  • nonprofit,
  • official,
  • primer,
  • publication,
  • pullout,
  • setup,
  • sister,
  • symposium,
  • textbook,
  • throne,
  • veteran.
  •
  • consent,
  • mantle,
  • omnibus,
  • spell,
  • success,
  • umbrella.
  •
  • calendar,
  • cosmopolitan,
  • graduate,
  • leave,
  • program,
  • reach,
  • reader,
  • structure,
  • volume.
  •
  • say,
  • superior.
  •
  • book,
  • club.
  •
  • machine.
  •
  • rise.
  •counselor
  • adviser.
  •dominion
  • hegemony.
  •government
  • bureaucracy.
  •legitimacy
  • legality.
  •regime
  • regency.
  •Other relevant words:
  • absolute,
  • absolutism,
  • academic,
  • academician,
  • access,
  • accurate,
  • ace,
  • acme,
  • actual,
  • admission,
  • advantage,
  • adviser,
  • advisor,
  • aegis,
  • affidavit,
  • affirm,
  • aficionado,
  • agency,
  • allowance,
  • almanac,
  • amperage,
  • announcer,
  • annunciator,
  • anthology,
  • appoint,
  • appraiser,
  • approval,
  • approve,
  • appurtenance,
  • arbiter,
  • area,
  • aristocrat,
  • arm,
  • artisan,
  • artiste,
  • ascendance,
  • ascendancy,
  • ascendence,
  • ascendency,
  • assent,
  • assert,
  • assess,
  • assignment,
  • assurance,
  • attache,
  • attestation,
  • augur,
  • auspices,
  • autarchy,
  • authentic,
  • authorisation,
  • authoritative,
  • authorities,
  • autobiography,
  • backing,
  • bailiwick,
  • balance,
  • base,
  • basis,
  • beef,
  • bench,
  • benefit,
  • berth,
  • bible,
  • big cheese,
  • big shot,
  • bill of health,
  • billet,
  • blot,
  • boffin,
  • bon vivant,
  • bond,
  • book,
  • booklet,
  • bookworm,
  • boss,
  • brain,
  • brass,
  • brevet,
  • bureau,
  • bureaucracy,
  • business office,
  • businesslike,
  • cabinet,
  • calendar,
  • can,
  • capability,
  • capacity,
  • care,
  • carte blanche,
  • carve,
  • cassandra,
  • cast,
  • catalog,
  • cathedra,
  • ceo,
  • certificate,
  • chair,
  • championship,
  • channel,
  • character,
  • charisma,
  • charm,
  • charter,
  • chest,
  • chest of drawers,
  • chop,
  • city hall,
  • claim,
  • clearance,
  • club,
  • clutch,
  • clutches,
  • coarsely,
  • cognoscenti,
  • collector,
  • commissioning,
  • commitment,
  • communicant,
  • communicator,
  • compass,
  • competency,
  • compulsion,
  • concession,
  • conduct,
  • confidence,
  • consent,
  • consequence,
  • consignment,
  • constitution,
  • continue,
  • convention,
  • convincingness,
  • cordon bleu,
  • correct,
  • cosmopolitan,
  • countenance,
  • crack shot,
  • craftsman,
  • create,
  • credible,
  • credit,
  • critic,
  • crown,
  • cure,
  • custody,
  • custom,
  • cut,
  • czar,
  • dab,
  • decency,
  • decide,
  • defend,
  • definite,
  • delegacy,
  • delegation,
  • demand,
  • department,
  • dependability,
  • deposition,
  • deputation,
  • deregulation,
  • designate,
  • determinant,
  • devolution,
  • devolvement,
  • dictation,
  • dictum,
  • dignity,
  • dilettante,
  • dint,
  • diploma,
  • diplomacy,
  • diplomat,
  • diplomatist,
  • direct,
  • directly,
  • directorship,
  • directory,
  • discretion,
  • dismissal,
  • dispensation,
  • disposal,
  • disposition,
  • distinction,
  • district,
  • diviner,
  • docket,
  • document,
  • domain,
  • dominance,
  • dominate,
  • dominion,
  • doyen,
  • doyenne,
  • drag,
  • dresser,
  • drive,
  • due,
  • duress,
  • ease,
  • edge,
  • effect,
  • effective,
  • effectiveness,
  • effectuality,
  • egghead,
  • elder,
  • elder statesman,
  • embassy,
  • eminence,
  • empire,
  • enabling,
  • enchantment,
  • endorsement,
  • epicure,
  • epicurean,
  • erect,
  • errand,
  • especially,
  • establish,
  • establishment,
  • esteem,
  • ethics,
  • etiquette,
  • evaluate,
  • evaluator,
  • evidence,
  • example,
  • excellence,
  • exemplar,
  • exemption,
  • expert witness,
  • exponent,
  • extend,
  • extraordinarily,
  • facility,
  • fan,
  • fatally,
  • favor,
  • favour,
  • federal agency,
  • fiat,
  • flower power,
  • force majeure,
  • form,
  • formalities,
  • formality,
  • fortunate,
  • fortune teller,
  • foundation,
  • franchise,
  • freak,
  • free rein,
  • freedom,
  • function,
  • furlough,
  • geek,
  • generalist,
  • gentlewoman,
  • genuine,
  • get,
  • glory,
  • goodness,
  • goods,
  • gospel,
  • gourmand,
  • gourmet,
  • governance,
  • government agency,
  • grad,
  • graduate,
  • grandeur,
  • grant,
  • grapevine,
  • greatly,
  • greatness,
  • green light,
  • grossly,
  • guardianship,
  • guidance,
  • guild,
  • guts,
  • hand,
  • handbook,
  • handling,
  • hands,
  • hardback,
  • hardcover,
  • headship,
  • heft,
  • hegemony,
  • height,
  • hierarchy,
  • high-mindedness,
  • highbrow,
  • highest,
  • highly,
  • honest,
  • honesty,
  • honourableness,
  • husbandry,
  • ideal,
  • illuminate,
  • immediately,
  • immunity,
  • impact,
  • imprimatur,
  • indulgence,
  • informant,
  • informer,
  • insinuation,
  • instance,
  • instantly,
  • integrity,
  • intellect,
  • interest,
  • interviewee,
  • juice,
  • jump,
  • jurisdiction,
  • justification,
  • justness,
  • keeping,
  • kingfish,
  • laterality,
  • latitude,
  • lead,
  • leadership,
  • leading,
  • leave,
  • legal power,
  • legality,
  • legation,
  • legitimacy,
  • let,
  • letters patent,
  • leverage,
  • liberty,
  • licence,
  • licentiate,
  • lieutenancy,
  • literature,
  • lock,
  • loftiness,
  • lordship,
  • luminary,
  • machine,
  • magnanimity,
  • magnetism,
  • mail,
  • maintain,
  • make,
  • man of science,
  • manipulation,
  • manners,
  • mantle,
  • margin,
  • marksman,
  • mastermind,
  • mastership,
  • materially,
  • maximum,
  • means,
  • mentor,
  • miscellany,
  • mission,
  • model,
  • moment,
  • monitor,
  • monolith,
  • monopoly,
  • mortally,
  • most,
  • mouthpiece,
  • moxie,
  • muscle,
  • ne plus ultra,
  • nestor,
  • newsmonger,
  • nobility,
  • nonprofit,
  • nostradamus,
  • notability,
  • note,
  • nut,
  • office staff,
  • official,
  • officialdom,
  • okay,
  • old hand,
  • old-timer,
  • oligopoly,
  • omnibus,
  • omnipotence,
  • operate,
  • oracle,
  • orbit,
  • order,
  • ordering,
  • oversight,
  • ownership,
  • palm,
  • paramountcy,
  • parliament,
  • part,
  • particularly,
  • pass,
  • passport,
  • past master,
  • patent,
  • patristic,
  • patronage,
  • pattern,
  • peculiarly,
  • pedagogue,
  • permission,
  • permit,
  • personality,
  • persuasion,
  • persuasiveness,
  • pi,
  • picture book,
  • pilotage,
  • pizzazz,
  • place,
  • play,
  • pledge,
  • police,
  • politesse,
  • politic,
  • politician,
  • polymath,
  • position,
  • possession,
  • post,
  • potential,
  • potentiality,
  • pow,
  • power of attorney,
  • power pack,
  • power structure,
  • powerhouse,
  • practice,
  • precedent,
  • precept,
  • preeminence,
  • preponderance,
  • prescription,
  • presently,
  • presidency,
  • press,
  • pretense,
  • pretension,
  • prevalence,
  • primer,
  • priority,
  • probity,
  • produce,
  • productiveness,
  • productivity,
  • professorship,
  • proficient,
  • prognosticator,
  • program,
  • prominence,
  • promptly,
  • pronouncement,
  • proper,
  • property right,
  • prophet,
  • prospectus,
  • protection,
  • protocol,
  • provide,
  • province,
  • provisionally,
  • proxy,
  • publication,
  • publisher,
  • pullout,
  • pundit,
  • purchase,
  • push,
  • quarto,
  • quickly,
  • rabbi,
  • radio,
  • raj,
  • range,
  • rapidly,
  • ratification,
  • reach,
  • reader,
  • readily,
  • really,
  • realm,
  • record,
  • rectitude,
  • regency,
  • regime,
  • regimen,
  • regimentation,
  • regulation,
  • rep,
  • reporter,
  • representation,
  • reputation,
  • repute,
  • responsibility,
  • reviewer,
  • righteousness,
  • rise,
  • role,
  • royalty,
  • rudely,
  • rulership,
  • ruling,
  • running,
  • sanction,
  • sapient,
  • say,
  • say-so,
  • scepter,
  • scientist,
  • scope,
  • security,
  • seer,
  • self-assurance,
  • self-confidence,
  • setup,
  • shark,
  • sharp,
  • sheepskin,
  • sibyl,
  • significance,
  • sincere,
  • sinew,
  • sister,
  • situation,
  • softback,
  • solidity,
  • solomon,
  • soothsayer,
  • soundness,
  • source,
  • specially,
  • specifically,
  • spell,
  • sphere,
  • spokesman,
  • sponsorship,
  • spot,
  • standard,
  • starets,
  • statesman,
  • statute,
  • steerage,
  • steering,
  • stewardship,
  • string,
  • structure,
  • stuff,
  • suasion,
  • subordination,
  • substance,
  • substantiality,
  • success,
  • suggestion,
  • superintendence,
  • superior,
  • superpower,
  • supervision,
  • support,
  • sureness,
  • suzerainty,
  • symposium,
  • task,
  • teacher,
  • technologist,
  • television,
  • teller,
  • temporarily,
  • tenure,
  • testimonial,
  • testimony,
  • textbook,
  • throne,
  • ticket,
  • tipster,
  • toleration,
  • top brass,
  • top dog,
  • tout,
  • transcendence,
  • transcendency,
  • true,
  • trump,
  • trust,
  • trusteeship,
  • trustworthiness,
  • truthful,
  • umbrella,
  • unadulterated,
  • upper,
  • upper hand,
  • uprightness,
  • upstairs,
  • usage,
  • use,
  • validity,
  • value,
  • vantage,
  • vehemence,
  • very,
  • vested interest,
  • veteran,
  • veto,
  • vigour,
  • vim,
  • virility,
  • virtue,
  • virtuoso,
  • virulence,
  • visa,
  • vise,
  • vitality,
  • voice,
  • volume,
  • voucher,
  • warrant,
  • warranty,
  • wattage,
  • way,
  • weigh,
  • weight,
  • weightiness,
  • whip,
  • whip hand,
  • whizz,
  • wise man,
  • witness,
  • word,
  • worth,
  • yearbook,
  • zap,
  • zenith,
  • Agentship,
  • Almightiness,
  • Armipotence,
  • Bookman,
  • Cognoscente,
  • Doquet,
  • Droit,
  • Empery,
  • Enlightener,
  • Executorship,
  • Exequatur,
  • Factorship,
  • Firman,
  • Illustriousness,
  • Indorsement,
  • Intelligencer,
  • Jurisprudent,
  • Magisterialness,
  • Managing,
  • Managery,
  • Nobleness,
  • Regentship,
  • Regnancy,
  • Testamur,
  • Imperium,
  • forcefulness,
  • EXEC,
  • strings,
  • mavin,
  • gossipmonger,
  • go ahead,
  • Potence,
  • Predominancy,
  • Prepollence,
  • Preponderancy,
  • Procuration,
  • Prominency,
  • Mana,
  • Brains,
  • Information Center,
  • palms,
  • connections,
  • officials,
  • entrusting,
  • ropes,
  • lethally,
  • DO,
  • FEDS,
  • CLAWS,
  • HUKM,
  • kahuna,
  • notifier,
  • talons,
  • bestseller,
  • cogence,
  • dab hand,
  • full blast,
  • leg up,
  • longhair,
  • meister,
  • Black Power,
  • blook,
  • divine right,
  • might and main,
  • pre-eminence,
  • Authoritativeness,
  • Rishi,
  • brute force,
  • poop,
  • sworn statement,
  • arbiter of taste,
  • top hand,
  • power elite,
  • free choice,
  • the man,
  • first place,
  • dead shot,
  • full power,
  • handy man,
  • good feeling,
  • ok,
  • administration,
  • be able to,
  • entrustment,
  • full force,
  • ivory dome,
  • no slouch,
  • non-interference,
  • take charge of,
  • top spot,
  • iron hand,
  • legal authority,
  • navicert,
  • first prize,
  • refined palate,
  • notarized statement,
  • wise old man,
  • inalienable right,
  • presumptive right,
  • natural right,
  • public relations officer,
  • ticket of leave,
  • power over others,
  • conjugal right,
  • connaisseur,
  • power struggle,
  • LETTER OF ATTORNEY,
  • VESTED RIGHT.

Antonyms for Authority:

• n.

  • expert, animate or inanimate
    amateur, greenhorn, ignoramus, proletariat, rookie, student.
  • power, control
    breach, break, disadvantage, inferiority, lack, lethargy, powerlessness, prohibition, subordination, weakness.
  • Other antonyms:
    amateur, apprentice, beginner, dabbler, denial, dilettante, feebleness, helplessness, hindrance, impotence, impotency, inconclusiveness, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inexpert, invalidity, layman, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, objection, opposition, powerlessness, prevention, prohibition, refusal, resistance, shakiness, unsoundness, weakness, nonexpert.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    amateur, apprentice, beginner, breach, break, dabbler, dilettante, disadvantage, ignoramus, impotence, impotency, inconclusiveness, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inexpert, inferiority, institution, invalidity, lack, layman, lethargy, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, powerlessness, prohibition, proletariat, shakiness, student, subordination, nonexpert.