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Antonyms for autocratic


Grammar : Adj
Spell : aw-tuh-krat-ik or aw-tuh-krat-i-kuh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɔ təˈkræt ɪk or ˌɔ təˈkræt ɪ kəl



Definition of autocratic

Origin :
  • 1823, from French autocratique, from autocrate, from Greek autokrates (see autocrat). Earlier autocratoric (1670s) was directly from Greek autokratorikos. Autocratical is attested from 1801.
  • adj holding power exclusively
Example sentences :
  • Cyrus is made to behave rather like the autocratic father of a goody story-book.
  • Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
  • The answer was covered by the autocratic clang on the engine-room gong.
  • Extract from : « End of the Tether » by Joseph Conrad
  • At present, an autocratic bureaucracy with no one man at the top.
  • Extract from : « Equation of Doom » by Gerald Vance
  • Is it likely that such feel the autocratic pressure of their Tsar?
  • Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee
  • They charged Susan with lust for power and autocratic control.
  • Extract from : « Susan B. Anthony » by Alma Lutz
  • L'État c'est moi was the autocratic maxim of Louis Quatorze.
  • Extract from : « Albert Gallatin » by John Austin Stevens
  • Mr. Harling, therefore, seemed to me autocratic and imperial in his ways.
  • Extract from : « My Antonia » by Willa Cather
  • The pottery-works were run on a liberal if autocratic basis.
  • Extract from : « The Patrician » by John Galsworthy
  • Something struggled with the autocratic criticism in her eyes.
  • Extract from : « The Patrician » by John Galsworthy
  • This old fellow had nothing of the other's alert, autocratic self-sufficiency.
  • Extract from : « Villa Rubein and Other Stories » by John Galsworthy

Synonyms for autocratic

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