Origin: Greek prefix auto-
Autocratic has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
"an autocratic person"
"autocratic behavior"
"a bossy way of ordering others around"
"a rather aggressive and dominating character"
"managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"
"a swaggering peremptory manner"
characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
"an authoritarian regime"
"autocratic government"
"despotic rulers"
"a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"
"a tyrannical government"
Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.