authoritarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From authority + -arian, circa 1880.
Base: authority
Affixes: -arian
Inflected forms:
form: more authoritarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most authoritarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: authoritarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, or exhibiting strict obedience to an authority; favoring authoritarianism over civic and individual liberties.
pos: adj
examples: the authoritarian personality
gloss: Demanding obedience to authority; marked by authoritarianism; dictatorial, tyrannical.
pos: adj
examples: The authoritarian government was demanding stricter laws for low-wage peasants.
Una rivoluzione è certamente la cosa più autoritaria che ci sia: è l'atto per il quale una parte della popolazione impone la sua volontà all'altra parte per mezzo di fucili, baionette e cannoni; mezzi autoritari, se ce ne sono; e il partito vittorioso, se non vuole aver combattuto invano, deve continuare questo dominio col terrore che le sue armi inspirano ai reazionari.
[…] (selling one’s personal activity under another’s direction and supervision encourages dependency and authoritarian relationships);[…]
It may be that precisely due to its weak nature, an authoritarian dictatorship needs rampant violence and lies to maintain its rule.
Wang Yi blatantly intimidates the world at the UNGA. He is a cheat and bully on the global stage in fundamental violation of the facts. Democratic countries should clearly recognize and unify against the challenge of authoritarian intervention. The Republic of China is a sovereign state. Taiwan has never been part of the People's Republic of China in historical fact, international law, or reality.
Of course, in China everything is determined by the state. So many times, when I asked how China had managed to build this network so quickly, I was told that it was because the government had backed it. And, of course, there are fewer Nimbys in an authoritarian state.
But amid all the disruption and norm-breaking, it’s Mr. Trump’s apparently keen interest in shaping American culture that may be most intriguing. To critics, it’s nothing less than a sign of his authoritarian bent – reminiscent of the Stalin-esque playbook that made government diktats over artistic expression a feature of the old Soviet Union.
gloss: Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one were an authority.
pos: adj
gloss: One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority.
pos: noun
examples: The dictator was an authoritarian.
Trump may be a Schmittian by instinct and aspiration, but he’s a fair-weather Schmittian only. A true authoritarian, confronted by limits on his power, might have ripped through them in service of establishing his authority.
While his two predecessors had been authoritarians – they knew what they thought on the most contentious matters within Catholicism and imposed that view on the church regardless of dissenters – Francis preferred to work away patiently at building consensus and accommodating a variety of perspectives. To that end, he breathed new life into the system of regular gatherings – or synods – of bishops in Rome to debate pressing matters.
gloss: One who follows and is excessively obedient to authority.
pos: noun
Antonyms: democratic
liberal
servile
humble
modest
Derived words: antiauthoritarian
anti-authoritarian
auth
authcom
authoritarian democracy
authoritarianism
authoritarianist
authoritarianity
authoritarianly
authoritarianness
counterauthoritarian
counter-authoritarian
nonauthoritarian
post-authoritarian
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: سُلْطَوِيّ
roman: sulṭawiyy
lang: Catalan
word: autoritari
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 專制的 /专制的
roman: zhuānzhì de
lang: Danish
word: autoritær
lang: Finnish
word: autoritaarinen
lang: French
word: autoritaire
lang: Galician
word: autoritario
lang: German
word: autoritär
lang: Greek
word: αυταρχικός
roman: aftarchikós
lang: Ido
word: autoritatema
lang: Indonesian
word: otoriter
lang: Japanese
word: 権威主義的な
roman: ken'i shugiteki na
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: autoritær
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: autoritær
lang: Persian
word: اقتدارگرا
roman: eqtedârgerâ
lang: Polish
word: autorytarny
lang: Portuguese
word: autoritário
lang: Russian
word: авторита́рный
roman: avtoritárnyj
lang: Spanish
word: autoritario
lang: Swedish
word: auktoritär
lang: Ukrainian
word: авторита́рний
roman: avtorytárnyj
lang: Urdu
word: آمِراَنہ
lang: Vietnamese
word: chuyên chế
lang: Yiddish
word: אויטאָריטאַריש
roman: oytoritarish