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imperious 音標拼音: [ɪmp'ɪriəs] a. 專橫的,傲慢的,迫切的 專橫的,傲慢的,迫切的 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 [ synonym: { disdainful}, { haughty}, { imperious}, { lordly}, { overbearing}, { prideful}, { sniffy}, { supercilious}, { swaggering}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness, Imperious. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner. [ 1913 Webster] This imperious man will work us all From princes into pages. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] His bold, contemptuous, and imperious spirit soon made him conspicuous. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Imperative; urgent; compelling. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 85 Moby Thesaurus words for " imperious": 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
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