Definitions for authoritarian
əˌθɔr ɪˈtɛər i ən, əˌθɒr-au·thor·i·tar·i·an

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. authoritarian, dictatoradjective

   a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner

   "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"

2. authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannicaladjective

   characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty

   "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government"

3. authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearingadjective

   expecting unquestioning obedience

   "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. authoritariannoun

   One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority.

   The dictator was an authoritarian.

2. authoritariannoun

   One who follows and is excessively obedient to authority.

3. authoritariannoun

   An organization or state which enforces strong or oppressive measures against its population.

4. authoritarianadjective

   Of, or relating to, absolute obedience to an authority.

5. authoritarianadjective

   Characterised by a tyrannical obedience to an authority; dictatorial.

   The authoritarian government was demanding stricter laws for low-wage peasants.

6. authoritarianadjective

   Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one was an authority.

7. Etymology: Circa 1880

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1. authoritarian

   Authoritarian refers to a system of government or leadership style characterized by a concentration of power in a leader or small elite group, who exert control over the population and demand unquestioning obedience. In an authoritarian system, individual freedoms are often curtailed and open dissent or political opposition is usually suppressed or not allowed.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of authoritarian in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of authoritarian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of authoritarian in a Sentence

1. Gloria Steinem:

   The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

2. Marise Payne:

   Our region is in a period of rising strategic uncertainty, the rules and norms that have provided a foundation for our stability, and hence our prosperity are under pressure, in particular from authoritarian regimes.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   ' In the end, Xi Jinping is afraid of liberty and sovereignty and rules-based order. It's Xi Jinping enemy, we will know who wins this by which ideas dominate the next 10, 20, 40 years. Are they a set of Western ideas or are they a set of understandings that flow from the authoritarian regime in China ?

4. Bernie Sanders:

   What happened in the Soviet Union was not socialism, it was authoritarian communism, im not an expert on the current economy in Sweden.

5. Lionel Trilling:

   We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=authoritarian
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Authoritarian
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=authoritarian