Dictatorial vs. Authoritarian — What's the Difference?

Tending to tell others what to do in an presumptuous manner.

Favouring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a dictator or dictatorship; autocratic.

An authoritarian person.

Of or pertaining to a dictator

Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom

In the manner of a dictator, usually with callous disregard for others.

Tending to tell other people what to do in a peremptory or arrogant manner.

Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.

Of, or relating to, or exhibiting strict obedience to an authority; favoring authoritarianism over civic and individual liberties.

Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner.

Demanding obedience to authority; marked by authoritarianism; dictatorial, tyrannical.

Of or characteristic of a dictator;

Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one were an authority.

Likened to a dictator in severity

One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority.

Expecting unquestioning obedience;

One who follows and is excessively obedient to authority.

Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty;

Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; - of governments or rulers; as, an authoritarian regime

Expecting unquestioning obedience: "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"

Behaves like a tyrant.

A person behaves in an tyrannical manner;

Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty;

Likened to a dictator in severity

Expecting unquestioning obedience;