Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power. Synonyms: autocratic, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory. "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"
