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synonyms for imperious

  • arrogant
  • autocratic
  • dictatorial
  • domineering
  • exacting
  • haughty
  • high-handed
  • tyrannical
  • authoritative
  • commanding
  • compulsatory
  • compulsory
  • despotic
  • imperative
  • imperial
  • mandatory
  • obligatory
  • oppressive
  • overweening
  • peremptory
  • required
  • tyrannous
See also synonyms for: imperiously / imperiousness
On this page you'll find 88 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to imperious, such as: arrogant, autocratic, dictatorial, domineering, exacting, and haughty.

antonyms for imperious

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  • democratic
  • humble
  • meek
  • fawning
  • helpless
  • obedient
  • servile
  • subservient
  • weak
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How to use imperious in a sentence

Here are the many results of Week 124, complete with an introduction in which I clearly was trying to establish a snotty, imperious tone.
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As Charles, Roe Hartrampf is all imperious whining in mouse-that-roared uniforms and Savile Row suits.
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If it’s a couple on a date, he would be imperious and try to intimidate the young man into spending a lot.
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Facebook’s ad ban and its imperious claim to objectivity are symptoms of the company’s misguided understanding of what America needs from social media.
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Edna was a trifle embarrassed at being thus signaled out for the imperious little woman's favor.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
He was a refuge from herself; in his imperious demands her memory slept, her depths were stagnant.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
He paused, and to illustrate the imperious humor of the Scot, he waved his fingers and a red wrister at me.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYD
She might have settled down for life on Russian Hill, so completely did she make the new environment fit her imperious person.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
Marriage, and later the birth of his son had softened Armand Aubigny's imperious and exacting nature greatly.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
He rose too, and across the table he confronted his guest, his mien haughty, his eyes imperious.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
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WORDS RELATED TO IMPERIOUS

  • assertory
  • bold
  • brassy
  • cheeky
  • cocky
  • come on
  • domineering
  • dynamic
  • energetic
  • enterprising
  • flip
  • forceful
  • fresh
  • get up and go
  • go after
  • hard sell
  • imperious
  • masterful
  • militant
  • nervy
  • pushing
  • pushy
  • sassy
  • shooting from the hip
  • smart
  • smart alecky
  • strenuous
  • tough
  • vigorous
  • zealous
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.