Authoritarian
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

TSAR
A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)

5 letters

STERN
Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"

6 letters

STRICT
Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"

TYRANT
Any person who exercises power in a cruel way; "his father was a tyrant"

8 letters

MARTINET
Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms

DICTATOR
A person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"

DESPOTIC
Belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot

TYRANNIC
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"

10 letters

TYRANNICAL
Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"

AUTOCRATIC
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"

11 letters

OVERBEARING
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

DICTATORIAL
Of or characteristic of a dictator; "dictatorial powers"