Word Meanings - IMPERIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic. "A vast and imperious mind." Tilloison. Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness, Imperious. Shak. 2. Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner.

Additional info about word: IMPERIOUS

1. Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic. "A vast and imperious mind." Tilloison. Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness, Imperious. Shak. 2. Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner. This imperious man will work us all From princes into pages. Shak. His bold, contemptuous, and imperious spirit soon made him conspicuous. Macaulay. 3. Imperative; urgent; compelling. Imperious need, which can not be withstood. Dryden. Syn. -- Dictatorial; haughty; domineering; overbearing; lordly; tyrannical; despotic; arrogant; imperative; authoritative; commanding; pressing. -- Imperious, Lordly, Domineering. One who is imperious exercises his authority in a manner highly offensive for its spirit and tone; one who is lordly assumes a lofty air in order to display his importance; one who is domineering gives orders in a way to make other feel their inferiority.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPERIOUS)

• Arbitrary
• Tyrannical
• harsh
• dictatorial
• imperious
• bearing
• overbearing
• selfish
• absolute
• irresponsible
• tyrannous
• domineering
• peremptory
• Authoritative
• Decisive
• sure
• conclusive
• authentic
• powerful
• firm
• potent
• arbitrary
• arrogant
• imperative
• dogmatic
• commanding
• Despotic
• Autocratic
• self-willed
• cruel
• tyrannical
• Dictation
• Imperative
• Dogmatic
• Doctrinal
• theological
• authoritative
• magisterial
• self-opinionated
• positive

Related words: (words related to IMPERIOUS)

• CONCLUSIVELY
  In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke.
• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• AUTHENTICITY
  1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness. 2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity,
• TYRANNOUS
  Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic. Sir P. Sidney. -- Tyr"an*nous*ly, adv.
• CONCLUSIVENESS
  The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• SELFISHLY
  In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• SELFISHNESS
  The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without
• MAGISTERIALITY
  Magisterialness; authoritativeness. Fuller.
• ABSOLUTENESS
  The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
• DECISIVE
  1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam. 2. Marked
• DOCTRINAL
  1. Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation. "Doctrinal clauses." Macaulay. 2. Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching. The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature
• COMMANDATORY
  Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.
• AUTHENTIC
  Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested. (more info) L. authenticus coming from the real author, of original or firsthand authority, from Gr. sons and perh. orig. from the p. pr. of to be, root as, and meaning the one it really is.
• HARSH
  Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. (more info) to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. härsk; from the same source as 1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.: To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. To the taste.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• COMMANDO
  In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce.
• ARROGANTLY
  In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
• DESPOTIC; DESPOTICAL
  Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ness, n.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• OMNIPOTENT
  1. Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power. Sir T. More. 2. Having unlimited power
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• APPOSITIVE
  Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n.
• ANT-BEAR
  An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.