Synonyms for Imperious:

• adj.

  •aggressive (adjective)
  • nervy,
  • shooting from the hip,
  • flipper,
  • hard sell,
  • go after,
  • flip,
  • smart alecky,
  • Assertory,
  • get up and go,
  • strenuous.
  •arbitrary (adjective)
  • no ifs ands buts.
  •arrogant (adjective)
  • more cold shoulder,
  • know it all,
  • most biggety,
  • pre-sumptuous,
  • smartiest,
  • up-pity,
  • more know-it-all,
  • up pity,
  • sniffiest,
  • selfimportant,
  • more swaggering,
  • most know it all,
  • more biggety,
  • sniffier,
  • most coldshoulder,
  • most cold shoulder,
  • self important,
  • more bragging,
  • more coldshoulder,
  • pre sumptuous,
  • smartier,
  • insolent,
  • snootiest,
  • most know-it-all,
  • pretentious,
  • in solent,
  • most swaggering,
  • most bragging,
  • in-solent,
  • self-important,
  • more know it all,
  • more cold-shoulder,
  • most cold-shoulder.
  •authoritarian (adjective)
  • severe,
  • un yielding,
  • most disciplinarian,
  • doctrinaire,
  • un-yielding,
  • more disciplinarian.
  •authoritative (adjective)
  • effectual,
  • potent,
  • influential,
  • impressive,
  • important,
  • effective,
  • consequential,
  • strong,
  • powerful.
  •autocratic (adjective)
  • more all-powerful,
  • most all-powerful,
  • most all powerful,
  • more czarlike,
  • more allpowerful,
  • more all powerful,
  • allpowerful,
  • most czarlike,
  • most allpowerful.
  •big (adjective)
  • highsounding,
  • high sounding,
  • over blown,
  • over-blown.
  •bossy (adjective)
  • iron-handed.
  •bossy, overbearing (adjective)
  • imperial,
  • high-handed,
  • oppressive,
  • tyrannous.
  •bullying (adjective)
  • most blustering,
  • more blustering,
  • more hectoring,
  • most hectoring.
  •commanding (adjective)
  • in charge.
  •compulsory (adjective)
  • more necessary,
  • most compulsatory,
  • more compulsatory.
  •controlling (adjective)
  • dominating.
  •curt (adjective)
  • most breviloquent,
  • more breviloquent,
  • short sweet,
  • un civil,
  • un gracious,
  • un-civil,
  • un-ceremonious,
  • most compendiary,
  • more compendiary,
  • un ceremonious,
  • un-gracious,
  • snappish.
  •decisive (adjective)
  • more strong minded,
  • most resolved,
  • in tent,
  • re-solute,
  • re-solved,
  • strongminded,
  • most strong-minded,
  • all out,
  • more resolved,
  • litmus test,
  • strong minded,
  • most strong minded,
  • re solute,
  • most strongminded,
  • more strongminded,
  • more strong-minded,
  • re solved,
  • final.
  •demanding (adjective)
  • more backbreaker,
  • most backbreaker,
  • importunate.
  •dictatorial (adjective)
  • more dictative,
  • most crack-the-whip,
  • most crack the whip,
  • un restricted,
  • most dictative,
  • more crack-the-whip,
  • un-limited,
  • un-restricted,
  • stern,
  • un limited,
  • more crack the whip.
  •dignified (adjective)
  • more distingue,
  • up-right,
  • re fined,
  • grandest,
  • re served,
  • formal,
  • most respected,
  • re-served,
  • up right,
  • most distingue.
  •dogmatic (adjective)
  • more stiff-necked,
  • most wrong headed,
  • most stiff necked,
  • wrong headed,
  • un equivocal,
  • more stiff necked,
  • in tolerant,
  • stiffnecked,
  • narrow minded,
  • more fascistic,
  • more wrongheaded,
  • in-tolerant,
  • most fascistic,
  • more stiffnecked,
  • de finite,
  • onesided,
  • more wrong-headed,
  • most wrong-headed,
  • one sided,
  • most stiff-necked,
  • most stiffnecked,
  • stiff necked,
  • more wrong headed,
  • de-finite,
  • most wrongheaded,
  • narrowminded,
  • un-equivocal.
  •dominant (adjective)
  • more predominate,
  • pre-vailing,
  • sovereign,
  • prevailing,
  • pre-siding,
  • preponderant,
  • out weighing,
  • para-mount,
  • most overbalancing,
  • more outweighing,
  • out-weighing,
  • more surpassing,
  • more obtaining,
  • pre eminent,
  • more prevalent,
  • over weighing,
  • pre siding,
  • most surpassing,
  • over balancing,
  • fore most,
  • sur-passing,
  • most overweighing,
  • fore-most,
  • para mount,
  • pre dominate,
  • more overbalancing,
  • most obtaining,
  • more overweighing,
  • pre-dominate,
  • more transcendent,
  • sur passing,
  • pre vailing,
  • most predominate,
  • over-weighing,
  • most outweighing,
  • over-balancing.
  •domineering (adjective)
  • in driver seat,
  • crack whip,
  • in drivers seat,
  • on high horse.
  •exacting (adjective)
  • ex-acting,
  • nit picking,
  • ex acting,
  • by book,
  • hyper critical,
  • most nit picking,
  • most nit-picking,
  • more nit-picking,
  • hyper-critical,
  • un-sparing,
  • unsparing,
  • more nit picking,
  • un sparing.
  •haughty (adjective)
  • hoitytoity,
  • over-weening,
  • in-different,
  • stuckup,
  • hoity toity,
  • over weening,
  • in different.
  •high-handed (adjective)
  • high handed.
  •high and mighty (adjective)
  • high mighty.
  •imperative (adjective)
  • more ordering,
  • more bidding,
  • most bidding,
  • most ordering.
  •insistent (adjective)
  • most perseverant,
  • re sounding,
  • re-iterative,
  • re-sounding,
  • un relenting,
  • re iterative,
  • resounding,
  • more perseverant.
  •magisterial (adjective)
  • judicial.
  •mandatory (adjective)
  • in dispensable,
  • in-dispensable,
  • in-voluntary,
  • more irremissible,
  • most irremissible,
  • in voluntary,
  • needful,
  • Irremissible.
  •obligatory (adjective)
  • un avoidable,
  • un-avoidable.
  •oracular (adjective)
  • sibylline,
  • Predicting.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • coldshoulder,
  • Dominative,
  • commanding,
  • condign,
  • wrong-headed,
  • highfaluting,
  • prideful,
  • dictatorial,
  • wrongheaded,
  • tyrannic,
  • overbalancing,
  • all-powerful,
  • sniffy,
  • pre-eminent,
  • dignified,
  • authoritarian,
  • proud,
  • in driver's seat,
  • on ego trip,
  • haughty,
  • nit-picking,
  • bossy,
  • obligatory,
  • breviloquent,
  • dictative,
  • arrogant,
  • mandatory,
  • on an ego trip,
  • arbitrary,
  • by the book,
  • dominant,
  • overweighing,
  • big,
  • strong-minded,
  • overbearing,
  • insistent,
  • no joke,
  • stuck up,
  • no ifs ands or buts,
  • straight out,
  • aggressive,
  • Compulsatory,
  • stiff-necked,
  • autocratic,
  • compendiary,
  • decisive,
  • domineering,
  • throwing weight around,
  • predominant,
  • high and mighty,
  • backbreaker,
  • bullying,
  • biggety,
  • ironhanded,
  • cold-shoulder,
  • crack the whip,
  • demanding,
  • exacting,
  • fascistic,
  • queenliest,
  • crack-the-whip,
  • compulsory,
  • highfalutin',
  • Perseverant,
  • supercilious,
  • assuming,
  • stately,
  • oracular,
  • lordly,
  • puffed-up,
  • required,
  • czarlike,
  • authoritative,
  • dogmatic,
  • pompous,
  • highhanded,
  • distingue,
  • pre-requisite,
  • curt.
  •overbearing (adjective)
  • Over-bearing,
  • most high and mighty,
  • more high-and-mighty,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • over bearing,
  • more high and mighty.
  •peremptory (adjective)
  • in-controvertible,
  • un-compromising,
  • un deniable,
  • in controvertible,
  • un-deniable,
  • un compromising.
  •pompous (adjective)
  • high flown,
  • more highfaluting,
  • most highfaluting,
  • self centered,
  • selfcentered,
  • highflown,
  • puffy,
  • self-centered.
  •predominant (adjective)
  • holding the reins,
  • pre-dominant,
  • pre dominant,
  • holding reins,
  • more directing,
  • most directing.
  •prideful (adjective)
  • on one high horse,
  • on ones high horse,
  • on one's high horse.
  •proud (adjective)
  • more dismissive,
  • dis-missive,
  • most dismissive,
  • self satisfied,
  • selfsatisfied,
  • dis missive,
  • dismissive,
  • self-respecting.
  •puffed-up (adjective)
  • puffedup,
  • puffed up.
  •required (adjective)
  • re quired,
  • re-quired.
  •required/requisite (adjective)
  • more condign,
  • re commended,
  • most condign,
  • de-served,
  • most demanded,
  • de served,
  • re-commended,
  • pre scribed,
  • pre-scribed,
  • more demanded.
  •self-respecting (adjective)
  • self respecting,
  • selfrespecting.
  •stately (adjective)
  • de liberate,
  • de-liberate,
  • high minded,
  • queenlier,
  • highminded.
  •supercilious (adjective)
  • snobby,
  • snobbiest,
  • putting on airs.

• n.

  •
  • confident,
  • assertive,
  • self-assured,
  • self-possessed,
  • bold,
  • self-confident,
  • forceful.
  •
  • over.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • flatter,
  • talk,
  • smarty-pants,
  • lucifer,
  • throw,
  • overweening,
  • own,
  • despotic,
  • masterful,
  • self-importance,
  • stand,
  • sniff,
  • immodest,
  • toffee-nosed,
  • up,
  • hifalutin,
  • above,
  • fancy,
  • smugly,
  • hoity-toity,
  • air,
  • egoistic,
  • patronizing,
  • swaggering,
  • tyrannical,
  • imperative,
  • brash,
  • high-flown,
  • condescend,
  • know-it-all,
  • proudly,
  • boor,
  • cut,
  • egotistic,
  • lord,
  • self-satisfied,
  • vain,
  • clever,
  • high,
  • thumb,
  • de haut en bas,
  • infra dig,
  • bigheaded,
  • uppity,
  • full,
  • portentous,
  • self-appointed,
  • know-all,
  • patronize,
  • snook,
  • dog,
  • cock,
  • tin god,
  • highfalutin,
  • egocentric,
  • smart alec,
  • dignity,
  • magisterial,
  • officious,
  • lofty,
  • disrespect,
  • disdainful,
  • swanky,
  • clever-clever,
  • bombastic,
  • bumptious,
  • snotty,
  • disdain,
  • delusion,
  • smug,
  • preen,
  • cock of the walk,
  • cocksure,
  • nose,
  • bigheadedness,
  • cocky,
  • self-opinionated,
  • know,
  • narcissist,
  • opinionated,
  • condescending,
  • peremptory,
  • superior,
  • conceited,
  • swollen head,
  • revolve,
  • deign,
  • snooty,
  • say,
  • smart mouth,
  • sententious,
  • jumped-up.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • rude.
  •insistent
  • urgent.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • egotistical,
  • necessary,
  • constraining,
  • Princelike,
  • intolerant,
  • repressive,
  • monarchial,
  • heavy-handed,
  • emphatic,
  • executive,
  • driving,
  • unblushing,
  • official,
  • binding,
  • hard,
  • exhibitionist,
  • harsh,
  • compulsive,
  • royal,
  • inflated,
  • exigent,
  • absolutist,
  • Presuming,
  • totalitarian,
  • administrative,
  • ex officio,
  • high pressure,
  • feudal,
  • obstinate,
  • subjection,
  • uncompromising,
  • self-willed,
  • braggart,
  • didactic,
  • elitist,
  • willful,
  • controlling,
  • necessitous,
  • obligation,
  • huffy,
  • clothed with authority,
  • inexorable necessity,
  • positive,
  • strict,
  • aristocratic,
  • ruling,
  • self-asserting,
  • pigheaded,
  • grandiose,
  • swashbuckling,
  • Imperatorial,
  • absolute,
  • necessitation,
  • regal,
  • grinding,
  • boastful,
  • high hat,
  • prescriptive,
  • irresistible,
  • crucial,
  • authorized,
  • acute,
  • kinglike,
  • inconsiderate,
  • categorical,
  • crying,
  • showy,
  • Overruling,
  • monarchical,
  • autarchic,
  • belittling,
  • pivotal,
  • obdurate,
  • unyielding,
  • dynastic,
  • affected,
  • queenly,
  • tough,
  • insulting,
  • must,
  • mighty,
  • regnant,
  • absolutistic,
  • wilful,
  • princely,
  • scornful,
  • ostentatious,
  • Magistral,
  • constrictive,
  • pontifical,
  • stubborn,
  • vainglorious,
  • firm,
  • pushy,
  • Hegemonical,
  • clamorous,
  • snobbish,
  • necessity,
  • high-priority,
  • grand,
  • fate,
  • compelling,
  • cavalier,
  • stringent,
  • gubernatorial,
  • Hegemonic,
  • departmental,
  • unjust,
  • dire,
  • restrictive,
  • hubristic,
  • consummate,
  • certain,
  • critical,
  • purple,
  • presumptuous,
  • Coactive,
  • monarchic,
  • contemptuous,
  • contumelious,
  • suppressive,
  • Restraining,
  • toplofty,
  • monocratic,
  • exultant,
  • due,
  • queenlike,
  • overconfident,
  • summary,
  • pressing,
  • kingly,
  • de rigueur,
  • monarchal,
  • chesty,
  • instant,
  • exulting,
  • emergent,
  • compulsion,
  • majestic.

Paraphrases for Imperious:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    compelling, imperative, pressing.

Antonyms for Imperious:

• adj.

  • bossy, overbearing
    helpless, servile, obedient, meek, humble, fawning, democratic, weak, subservient.
  • Other antonyms:
    equitable, equal, complaisant, unprejudiced, law-abiding, stable, overmodest, nonpartisan, resigned, disinterested, sheepish, cringing, conditional, diffident, moral, dispassionate, irresolute, gentle, mild, introverted, timid, passive, honorable, unaggressive, shrinking, safe, impartial, balanced, trivial, bashful, subdued, retiring, responsible, constitutional, reasonable, contingent, docile, minor, negligible, reserved, amenable, shy, fair, cowering, objective, unimportant, deferential, rational, understanding, submissive, indecisive, quiet, limited, principled, ethical, irreproachable, ductile, evenhanded, unbiased, tractable, mousy, just, incidental, accountable, unimpeachable, yielding, unobtrusive, noncritical, lenient, compliant, acquiescent, unassertive.