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What is the adjective for authoritarianism?

What's the adjective for authoritarianism? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs authorize, authorise and authourize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

authoritarian
  1. Of, or relating to, absolute obedience to an authority.
  2. Characterised by a tyrannical obedience to an authority; dictatorial.
  3. Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one were an authority.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Stambolov thus emerges from these pages as a complex historical figure, an authoritarian ruler who protected his country's liberty at the cost of the people's freedom.”
      “Members of these communities have been reeling under authoritarian laws.”
authoritative
  1. Arising or originating from a figure of authority
  2. Highly accurate or definitive; treated or worthy of treatment as a scholarly authority
  3. Having a commanding style.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The same commission gives ministers an authoritative power to preach to Heathens.”
      “Henry, fighting the urge to just disappear and let the battle rage on, shifted somewhat pompously and very self-confidently into a loud authoritative voice.”
      “Pro-growth policies may be carried out and implemented within a highly democratic political process or by a completely authoritative dictator.”
authorisable
  1. Alternative spelling of authorizable
  2. Synonyms:
authorized
authorised
  1. Alternative spelling of authorized
authorizable
  1. Capable of being authorized.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It allows no further possibility for declaring regional investment aid for steel undertakings in Germany compatible with the common market for steel, regardless of whether the aid would have been authorizable had it been notified in time.”
authorityless
  1. Without authority.
authorizing
authorising
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