Usually means: Demanding and domineering with authority.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. imperious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. imperious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imperious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. imperious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. imperious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Imperious, imperious: Wordnik
  7. imperious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. imperious: Wiktionary
  9. imperious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. imperious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. imperious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Imperious, imperious: Dictionary.com
  13. imperious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. imperious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Imperious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. imperious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. imperious: Rhymezone
  18. Imperious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. imperious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. imperious: Free Dictionary
  21. imperious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. imperious: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. imperious: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. imperious: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
▸ adjective:  Urgent.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Imperial or regal.

Similar:
domineering, masterful, overbearing, lordful, bossy, high and mighty, overweening, overbossy, overmastering, obtrusive, more...

Opposite:
humble, meek, submissive

Types:
authoritarian, dictatorial, autocratic, paternalistic, despotic, tyrannical, imperial, more...

Colors:
    royal blue,     gold,     crimson,     burgundy,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     silver,     black,     maroon,     sapphire


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Similar:
domineering, masterful, overbearing, lordful, bossy, high and mighty, overweening, overbossy, overmastering, obtrusive, more...

Opposite:
humble, meek, submissive

Types:
authoritarian, dictatorial, autocratic, paternalistic, despotic, tyrannical, imperial, more...

Colors:
    royal blue,     gold,     crimson,     burgundy,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     silver,     black,     maroon,     sapphire



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