AUTHORITATIVE Synonyms

• having or marked by confidence or assurance

• persuaded of; very sure

• not liable to error in judgment or action

• able to control or determine policy

• of or characteristic of a dictator

• expecting unquestioning obedience

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

• of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

• relating to or involving dogma

• characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles

• most powerful or important or influential

• used of a height or viewpoint

• offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

• having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

• of or relating to a magistrate

• offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

• used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person

• having or revealing supreme mastery or skill

• having official authority or sanction

• of or relating to an office

• a worker who holds or is invested with an office

• someone who administers the rules of a game or sport

• verified officially

• conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline

• (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution

• having great power or force or potency or effect

• (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree

• strong enough to knock down or overwhelm

• having great influence

• (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful

• displaying superhuman strength or power

• the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)

• exercising power or authority

• a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

• greatest in status or authority or power

• of high or superior quality or performance

• of or characteristic of high rank or importance

• written or printed above and to one side of another character

• having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit

• the largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes

• one of greater rank or station or quality

• a town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth

• the head of a religious community

• a combatant who is able to defeat rivals

• a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character

• (sometimes followed by `to') not subject to or influenced by

• having a higher rank

• (often followed by `to') above being affected or influenced by

• clearly defined or formulated

• of recognized authority or excellence

• supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement

• endowed with authority

• endowed with authority

• of great significance or value

• important in effect or meaning

• of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

• having authority or ascendancy or influence

• having or suggesting a consciousness of high position

• sharply exact or accurate or delimited

• (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct

• marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness

• having all the qualities typical of the thing specified

• limited to the thing specified

• appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs