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Definition of authoritarian in English: authoritarianadjective ɔːˌθɒrɪˈtɛːrɪənəˌθɔrəˈtɛriən 1Favouring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom. the transition from an authoritarian to a democratic regime Example sentencesExamples - His increasingly authoritarian style of leadership has provoked some concern about the future of democracy in the country.
- To modern ears, the scientific democrats' program may sound as deeply authoritarian as the intellectual tyranny they feared.
- This is a model for arbitrary authoritarian government.
- In an authoritarian state, those in power set the limit of freedom.
- This probably will be the nature of the political cycle that is now beginning - neither wholly democratic nor wholly authoritarian.
- Their values - strict authoritarian values in the conservatives' case - are what motivate them to enter the voting booth.
- Medieval society was authoritarian and oppressive; if you entertained views different from those of the authorities, you kept quiet about it.
- The system is a hard-to-classify blend of democratic and authoritarian features.
- Historically, liberalism drew its strength from a critique of divinely sanctioned absolute monarchs and authoritarian rule.
- Civil society is always subversive of totalitarian or authoritarian power: in democracies, it sets limits on the exercise of legitimate power.
- On World Freedom Day, we also recognize that more than two billion people still live under authoritarian regimes.
- The church and the Communist Party were both, it used to be argued, dogmatic and authoritarian institutions, demanding obedience and total commitment.
- Authoritarian governments have deprived people of political, civil and intellectual freedoms for decades.
- The historiography reveals insights into the authoritarian mindset of freedom fighters shaped as a product of oppression and armed resistance.
- But the imposition of authoritarian control and discipline creates exactly the opposite of the effect intended.
- These rules had been strongly enforced during authoritarian regimes to the point that people risked imprisonment or even death if they failed to follow them.
- There is a lot at stake in this issue - principally the question of whether the democratic or the authoritarian principle will be ascendant in social relations today.
- Leaders of churches, for example, may be reluctant to advocate restrictive legislation because they are seen to represent authoritarian institutions.
- How does the world's biggest authoritarian government address the boundless freedom of the Internet?
- During the authoritarian era, people dared not speak out about the abuse of power or privilege, no matter how angry they were.
- The country had long been under the rule of a corrupt dictator whose authoritarian rule had alienated the masses.
Synonyms autocratic, dictatorial, totalitarian, despotic, tyrannical, autarchic, draconian, absolute, arbitrary, oppressive, repressive, illiberal, undemocratic, anti-democratic disciplinarian, domineering, doctrinaire, dogmatic, overweening, overbearing, high-handed, bossy, peremptory, imperious, harsh, strict, severe, rigid, inflexible, unyielding - 1.1 Showing a lack of concern for the wishes or opinions of others; dictatorial.
he had an authoritarian and at times belligerent manner Example sentencesExamples - There is no government bureaucracy more arrogant, unaccountable, and authoritarian.
- I'm thinking maybe it's some form of authoritarian arrogance.
- Socrates complains that a text, unlike a talking person, is authoritarian, eliminating dialogue.
- The calls strengthened public opinion that she is authoritarian and allergic to criticism.
- Staff were also concerned about authoritarian management practices and a lack of transparency in appointments.
- Such a concern adds a new paternalistic layer to the increasingly authoritarian role of local government.
- I thought that the process was in some ways too authoritarian; that people were driven to meet deadlines and driven to attend meetings on short notice.
- There is something almost authoritarian to the strict order of this arrangement.
- They are more old-fashioned and authoritarian than their parents' generation and are very concerned about school discipline.
- More than anyone else at the time, he had reason to be arrogant and authoritarian.
- Children of authoritarian parents lacked social skills with their peers.
- Their authoritarian leaders were economic incompetents and intolerant of even the mildest expressions of dissent.
- He was authoritarian and intolerant but was also urbane and charming when he needed to be.
- She is many things - venal, arrogant, authoritarian, ruthless - but she is no dummy.
- This ‘club’ is seen as arrogant and authoritarian, even dangerous to the future security of the bulk of the world's population.
- There is an ongoing tension between a single, authoritarian reading and multiple and emancipatory readings of a text.
Synonyms pompous, cocksure, self-important, arrogant, superior
noun ɔːˌθɒrɪˈtɛːrɪənəˌθɔrəˈtɛriən An authoritarian person. Example sentencesExamples - The absence of a real, active campaigning democratic left has left a vacuum which the authoritarians have filled.
- One of the things that irritate me most in the world is how conservative authoritarians have hijacked the word ‘family’.
- Drug-dealing happens every second of the day, and only the most blinkered authoritarians now think that it can be stomped out through ‘crackdowns’.
- But the agenda of right-wing authoritarians did not change.
- One does not have to go back to ancient Athens to grasp the depressing fact that most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.
- It provided a bridge between the corporate freemarketers and the moral authoritarians who define the poles of the Republican Party.
- He was against colonialism and neo-colonialism in all their forms, against racism, elites, and authoritarians of all varieties.
- That's normally been the strategy of the extreme right and the authoritarians.
- This exposed the long-hidden fault line between authoritarians and libertarians.
- But as for the majority, my impression is they are far from being instinctive authoritarians.
- The power structures may have changed, but authoritarians will still abuse power however they can.
- These decisions are simply too important to be made by authoritarians in secret.
- They had expected that reform, if it came at all, would occur gradually and piecemeal, and would be the work of enlightened authoritarians rather than elected representatives.
- He has rightly said the political battle is no longer between ideas of the left and the right - but between the ideas of liberals and authoritarians.
- His was a family where fathers were absent figures, authoritarians, and mothers were the ones who communicated and shaped the children.
- This enables the authoritarians to bamboozle the people into thinking they are still free.
- Their dirty little secret is that they know that the majority of Americans are not by nature authoritarians - they are individualists and communitarians.
- There are some ugly signs that such a mood is already spreading, though the hysteria seems more common among authoritarians on both sides in this country than in the more tolerant US.
- Cautious optimism reigns; of course anything could happen, and the region's authoritarians aren't going to give up easily.
- In the end the authoritarians prevailed by consistently outvoting their opponents, and the libertarians were forced out.
Synonyms autocrat, despot, dictator, tyrant, absolutist disciplinarian, martinet
Rhymes agrarian, antiquarian, apiarian, Aquarian, Arian, Aryan, barbarian, Bavarian, Bulgarian, Caesarean (US Cesarean), centenarian, communitarian, contrarian, Darien, disciplinarian, egalitarian, equalitarian, establishmentarian, fruitarian, Gibraltarian, grammarian, Hanoverian, humanitarian, Hungarian, latitudinarian, libertarian, librarian, majoritarian, millenarian, necessarian, necessitarian, nonagenarian, octogenarian, ovarian, Parian, parliamentarian, planarian, predestinarian, prelapsarian, proletarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, quodlibetarian, Rastafarian, riparian, rosarian, Rotarian, sabbatarian, Sagittarian, sanitarian, Sauveterrian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, topiarian, totalitarian, Trinitarian, ubiquitarian, Unitarian, utilitarian, valetudinarian, vegetarian, veterinarian, vulgarian Definition of authoritarian in US English: authoritarianadjectiveəˌTHôrəˈterēənəˌθɔrəˈtɛriən 1Favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom. the transition from an authoritarian to a democratic regime Example sentencesExamples - Leaders of churches, for example, may be reluctant to advocate restrictive legislation because they are seen to represent authoritarian institutions.
- To modern ears, the scientific democrats' program may sound as deeply authoritarian as the intellectual tyranny they feared.
- Historically, liberalism drew its strength from a critique of divinely sanctioned absolute monarchs and authoritarian rule.
- Their values - strict authoritarian values in the conservatives' case - are what motivate them to enter the voting booth.
- Medieval society was authoritarian and oppressive; if you entertained views different from those of the authorities, you kept quiet about it.
- The historiography reveals insights into the authoritarian mindset of freedom fighters shaped as a product of oppression and armed resistance.
- The country had long been under the rule of a corrupt dictator whose authoritarian rule had alienated the masses.
- These rules had been strongly enforced during authoritarian regimes to the point that people risked imprisonment or even death if they failed to follow them.
- This is a model for arbitrary authoritarian government.
- This probably will be the nature of the political cycle that is now beginning - neither wholly democratic nor wholly authoritarian.
- His increasingly authoritarian style of leadership has provoked some concern about the future of democracy in the country.
- On World Freedom Day, we also recognize that more than two billion people still live under authoritarian regimes.
- But the imposition of authoritarian control and discipline creates exactly the opposite of the effect intended.
- The system is a hard-to-classify blend of democratic and authoritarian features.
- Civil society is always subversive of totalitarian or authoritarian power: in democracies, it sets limits on the exercise of legitimate power.
- There is a lot at stake in this issue - principally the question of whether the democratic or the authoritarian principle will be ascendant in social relations today.
- During the authoritarian era, people dared not speak out about the abuse of power or privilege, no matter how angry they were.
- How does the world's biggest authoritarian government address the boundless freedom of the Internet?
- The church and the Communist Party were both, it used to be argued, dogmatic and authoritarian institutions, demanding obedience and total commitment.
- Authoritarian governments have deprived people of political, civil and intellectual freedoms for decades.
- In an authoritarian state, those in power set the limit of freedom.
Synonyms autocratic, dictatorial, totalitarian, despotic, tyrannical, autarchic, draconian, absolute, arbitrary, oppressive, repressive, illiberal, undemocratic, anti-democratic - 1.1 Showing a lack of concern for the wishes or opinions of others; domineering; dictatorial.
he had an authoritarian and at times belligerent manner Example sentencesExamples - I'm thinking maybe it's some form of authoritarian arrogance.
- The calls strengthened public opinion that she is authoritarian and allergic to criticism.
- More than anyone else at the time, he had reason to be arrogant and authoritarian.
- There is something almost authoritarian to the strict order of this arrangement.
- There is no government bureaucracy more arrogant, unaccountable, and authoritarian.
- He was authoritarian and intolerant but was also urbane and charming when he needed to be.
- They are more old-fashioned and authoritarian than their parents' generation and are very concerned about school discipline.
- There is an ongoing tension between a single, authoritarian reading and multiple and emancipatory readings of a text.
- Children of authoritarian parents lacked social skills with their peers.
- I thought that the process was in some ways too authoritarian; that people were driven to meet deadlines and driven to attend meetings on short notice.
- She is many things - venal, arrogant, authoritarian, ruthless - but she is no dummy.
- Socrates complains that a text, unlike a talking person, is authoritarian, eliminating dialogue.
- Their authoritarian leaders were economic incompetents and intolerant of even the mildest expressions of dissent.
- Such a concern adds a new paternalistic layer to the increasingly authoritarian role of local government.
- This ‘club’ is seen as arrogant and authoritarian, even dangerous to the future security of the bulk of the world's population.
- Staff were also concerned about authoritarian management practices and a lack of transparency in appointments.
Synonyms pompous, cocksure, self-important, arrogant, superior
nounəˌTHôrəˈterēənəˌθɔrəˈtɛriən An authoritarian person. Example sentencesExamples - This enables the authoritarians to bamboozle the people into thinking they are still free.
- They had expected that reform, if it came at all, would occur gradually and piecemeal, and would be the work of enlightened authoritarians rather than elected representatives.
- There are some ugly signs that such a mood is already spreading, though the hysteria seems more common among authoritarians on both sides in this country than in the more tolerant US.
- These decisions are simply too important to be made by authoritarians in secret.
- This exposed the long-hidden fault line between authoritarians and libertarians.
- But as for the majority, my impression is they are far from being instinctive authoritarians.
- The absence of a real, active campaigning democratic left has left a vacuum which the authoritarians have filled.
- That's normally been the strategy of the extreme right and the authoritarians.
- Their dirty little secret is that they know that the majority of Americans are not by nature authoritarians - they are individualists and communitarians.
- But the agenda of right-wing authoritarians did not change.
- He has rightly said the political battle is no longer between ideas of the left and the right - but between the ideas of liberals and authoritarians.
- It provided a bridge between the corporate freemarketers and the moral authoritarians who define the poles of the Republican Party.
- In the end the authoritarians prevailed by consistently outvoting their opponents, and the libertarians were forced out.
- He was against colonialism and neo-colonialism in all their forms, against racism, elites, and authoritarians of all varieties.
- The power structures may have changed, but authoritarians will still abuse power however they can.
- Cautious optimism reigns; of course anything could happen, and the region's authoritarians aren't going to give up easily.
- One does not have to go back to ancient Athens to grasp the depressing fact that most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.
- His was a family where fathers were absent figures, authoritarians, and mothers were the ones who communicated and shaped the children.
- One of the things that irritate me most in the world is how conservative authoritarians have hijacked the word ‘family’.
- Drug-dealing happens every second of the day, and only the most blinkered authoritarians now think that it can be stomped out through ‘crackdowns’.
Synonyms autocrat, despot, dictator, tyrant, absolutist
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