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

[ Syn: autocratic , bossy , dominating , high-and-mighty , magisterial ]

not allowing contradiction or refusal; spoke in peremptory tones; peremptory commands'

putting an end to all debate or action; a peremptory decree'