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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
U, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, acute, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, binding, bossy, clamorous, coactive, compelling, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory, constraining, critical, crucial, crying, de rigueur, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, driving, dynastic, elitist, exigent, feudal, grinding, heavy-handed, high and mighty, high-handed, high-pressure, high-priority, hubristic, imperative, imperatorial, imperatorious, imperial, insistent, instant, irresistible, kinglike, kingly, lordly, magisterial, magistral, majestic, mandatory, masterful, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, must, necessary, obligatory, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, peremptory, pivotal, pressing, princelike, princely, purple, queenlike, queenly, regal, repressive, required, restraining, royal, severe, sovereign, strict, stringent, suppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous, urgent
Dictionary Results for imperious:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
imperious
    adj 1: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of
           those one views as unworthy; "some economists are
           disdainful of their colleagues in other social
           disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners
           were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very
           sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my
           clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood
           than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty,
           imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful,
           sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Imperious \Im*pe"ri*ous\, a. [L. imperiosus: cf. F.
   imp['e]rieux. See Imperial.]
   1. Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic. [Obs.]
      "A vast and imperious mind." --Tilloison.
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            Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness,
            Imperious.                            --Shak.
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   2. Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant;
      an imperious manner.
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            This imperious man will work us all
            From princes into pages.              --Shak.
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            His bold, contemptuous, and imperious spirit soon
            made him conspicuous.                 --Macaulay.
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   3. Imperative; urgent; compelling.
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            Imperious need, which can not be withstood.
                                                  --Dryden.

   Syn: Dictatorial; haughty; domineering; overbearing; lordly;
        tyrannical; despotic; arrogant; imperative;
        authoritative; commanding; pressing.

   Usage: Imperious, Lordly, Domineering. One who is
          imperious exercises his authority in a manner highly
          offensive for its spirit and tone; one who is lordly
          assumes a lofty air in order to display his
          importance; one who is domineering gives orders in a
          way to make others feel their inferiority.
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