adj.专制的,
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
authoritarian (adjective)1.
of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to - authority had authoritarian parents
2.
of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people - an authoritarian regime
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
authoritarian (adjective)1.
fond of ordering people around
SYNONYMS:
authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic ( autocratical), despotic, dictatorial, domineering, imperious, masterful, overbearing, peremptory, tyrannical ( tyrannic), tyrannousRELATED WORDS:
arrogant, assumptive, disdainful, fastuous, haughty, highfalutin ( hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-hat, huffy, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, self-asserting, supercilious, superior, toplofty ( toploftical), uppish, uppity; commanding, controlling, dictating, regimental; arbitrary, high-handed, imperial; directorial, magisterial; aggressive, assertive, self-assertive; imperative; conceited, narcissistic, pompous, vain; all-powerful, almighty, omnipotent; firm, sternNEAR ANTONYMS:
humble, meek, modest, unassuming; amenable, docile, obedient, tractable; indecisive, irresolute; acquiescent, compliant, passive, resigned, submissive, yielding2.
given to exacting standards of discipline and self-restraint
SYNONYMS:
austere, authoritarian, flinty, hard, harsh, heavy-handed, ramrod, rigid, rigorous, stern, strict, toughRELATED WORDS:
demanding, exacting; uncharitable, unforgiving; adamant, adamantine, callous, hardened, hard-hearted, hard-line, immovable, implacable, inflexible, merciless, ossified, pitiless, relentless, rock-ribbed, stiff, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding; dour, gruff; ascetic ( ascetical), monastic, monkish; browbeating, bullying; determined, firm, resolved, single-minded, steadfast, unflinching; dogged, intractable, obstinate, relentlessNEAR ANTONYMS:
easy, easygoing, laid-back, undemanding; charitable, kind, merciful, mild, patient, soft, softhearted; accepting, compromising, yielding; responsive, willing; acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, complaisant, compliant, flexible, pliable, pliant