Imperious

Adjective

 * 1) Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
 * 2) * 1866 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth
 * ...she glanced about her in an imperious, challenging sort of way, with looks and gestures that clearly were unstudied.
 * 1) Urgent.
 * 2) * 1891 - Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
 * Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with that gallant army which had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth.
 * 1)  Imperial or regal.
 * 2) * 1895 - Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
 * She was quick, beautiful, imperious, while he was quiet, slow, and misty.

Synonyms

 * authoritarian, bossy, dictatorial, domineering, overbearing

Related terms

 * imperial
 * imperialism
 * imperialistic
 * imperially
 * imperialness
 * imperium

Adverbs for Imperious
disagreeably; regally; ridiculously; amusingly; tyrannically; arbitrarily; unreasonably; arrogantly; clownishly; airily; shockingly; unwarrantedly; officiously; ludicrously; despotically; hatefully; pompously; inherently; superciliously; loftily; haughtily; proudly; sharply; offensively; naturally; rudely; grossly.

Thesaurus
U, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, acute, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, binding, bossy, clamorous, coactive, compelling, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory, constraining, critical, crucial, crying, de rigueur, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, driving, dynastic, elitist, exigent, feudal, grinding, heavy-handed, high and mighty, high-handed, high-pressure, high-priority, hubristic, imperative, imperatorial, imperatorious, imperial, insistent, instant, irresistible, kinglike, kingly, lordly, magisterial, magistral, majestic, mandatory, masterful, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, must, necessary, obligatory, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, peremptory, pivotal, pressing, princelike, princely, purple, queenlike, queenly, regal, repressive, required, restraining, royal, severe, sovereign, strict, stringent, suppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous, urgent

Etymology
From imperiosus: < imperium:

Translations

 * Arabic: آمر
 * Armenian:
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 * Chinese:
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 * Finnish:, ,
 * German: herrisch
 * Latin:
 * Manx: ard-chreeagh
 * Spanish: