Imperious

Definition: Imperious

Imperious

Adjective

1. Able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand".

Date "imperious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Domain	Definition
19th Century Satire	From Eng. imp, devil and aerial, airy. Airy as the devil. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Imperious

Synonym: masterful (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Government	Ruling; Verb: regnant, gubernatorial; imperious; authoritative, executive, administrative, clothed with authority, official, departmental, ex officio, imperative, peremptory, overruling, absolute; hegemonic, hegemonical; authorized; (due).
Insolence	Adjective: insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown.
Necessity	Necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion; subjection; stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity; fate; what must be.
Pride	Supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant; unblushing.
Thought	Phrase: the mind being on the stretch; the mind turning upon, the head turning upon, the mind running upon; " divinely, bent to meditation "; en toute chose il faut considerer la fin; " fresh-pluckt from bowers of never-failing thought "; " go speed the stars of Thought "; " in maiden meditation fancy-free "; " so sweet is zealous contemplation "; " the power of thought is the magic of the Mind "; " those that think must govern those that toil "; " thought is parent of the deed ";Phrase: the mind being on the stretch; the mind turning upon, the head turning upon, the mind running upon; " divinely, bent to meditation "; en toute chose il faut considerer la fin; " fresh-pluckt from bowers of never-failing thought "; " go speed the stars of Thought "; " in maiden meditation fancy-free "; " so sweet is zealous contemplation "; " the power of thought is the magic of the Mind "; " those that think must govern those that toil "; " thought is parent of the deed "; " thoughts in attitudes imperious "; " thoughts that breathe and words that burn "; vivere est cogitare; Volk der Dichter und Denker.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Imperious

English words defined with "imperious": aggressive, authoritarian ♦ dictatorial, Dominative, domineeringness ♦ imperiously, Imperiousnes, imperiousness ♦ masterful ♦ overbearing, overbearingness. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

This hole isn't big enough for the two of us, Imperious. (Ladyhawke; writing credit: Edward Khmara)

And what is the standing order, for humans, from your Imperious Leader (Battlestar Galactica; writing credit: Glen A. Larson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	The Imperious Economy (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	VVho would not think it an admirable peace betwix the mighty and the mean, when the lamb, without resistance, yielded his throat to be torn by the imperious wolf? Polyphemus's den gives us a perfect pattern of such a peace, and such a government, wherein Ulysses and his companions had nothing to do, but quietly to suffer themselves to be devoured. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	Such lovely flowers, and of forms so entirely new to me, were not to be abandoned at the bidding of any little maid, however imperious.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The doll is one of the most imperious necessities, and at the same time one of the most charming instincts of female childhood
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	The imperious considerations which produced this measure will be explained to the parties whom it may in any degree concern.
Martin van Buren	1837-1841	How imperious, then, is the obligation imposed upon every citizen, in his own sphere of action, whether limited or extended, to exert himself in perpetuating a condition of things so singularly happy!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Imperious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.06% of the time. "Imperious" is used about 106 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.06%	105	31,781
Noun (proper)	0.94%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	106	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "imperious": imperious-looking.
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Language		Translations for "imperious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dominues (dominant, magisterial, masterful, prevalent, regnant, upmost), autoritar (authoritarian, authoritative, commanding, domineering, high handed, magisterial, masterful, overbearing, peremptory), arrogant (arrogant, cavalier, haughty, jackanapes, lordly, pushful, pushing). (various references)

Arabic		‏ملح (corn, cure, demanding, exigent, imperative, importunate, importune, insistent, insisting, interfering, obsessive, pertinacious, pressing, salt, stringent, urgent), ‏متغطرس (arrogant, conceited, haughty, insolent, lofty, lordly, overbearing, overpeopled, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, proud, pushy, snooty, supercilious), ‏متعجرف (arrogant, cavalier, conceited, haughty, lordly, overbearing, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, puffed up, puffy, stuffy, supercilious, swelling), ‏مستبد (absolute, despot, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, highhanded, masterful, tyrannical), ‏طارئ (adventitious, casual, contingency, emergency, fortuitous, incidental, pressing). (various references)

Bulgarian		властен (authoritative, dictatorial, domineering, high handed, masterful, overmastering, peremptory, possessive, self-assertive), високомерен (airy, cavalier, domineering, grand, high and mighty, lofty, lordly, overweening, proud, snooty, snuffy, stiff necked, top-lofty), належащ (indispensable, urgent), надменен (airy, aloof, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, haughty, high, high and mighty, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, proud-stomached, remote, scornful, stand offish, stiff, stuck up, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty, uppish), заповеднически (dogmatic, imperative, magisterial, overbearing, peremptory), повелителен (imperatival, imperative, jussive). (various references)

Chinese		专横 (Dictatorial). (various references)

Czech		velitelský (imperative), povýšenecký (conceited, high and mighty), panovaèný (authoritarian, high handed, masterful, possessive, tyrannical), pánovitý (bossy, bullying, domineering, hectoring, high handed, overbearing), autoritativní (authoritative, definitive, imperative, magisterial). (various references)

Farsi		متکبر (Arrogant, Haughty, High, Perky, Proud), مبرم (Demanding, Sore, Urgent), تحکم امیز, امرانه (Peremptory), امر (Affair, Authoritative, Circumstance, Job, Order, Ordinance, Ploy, Precept). (various references)

Finnish		käskevä (authoritative, commanding). (various references)

French		impérieux (imperative), urgent (imperative), pressant, autoritaire (imperial). (various references)

German		herrisch (authoritative, bossy, bullying, despotic, domineering, imperative, lordly, masterful, overbearing, overbearingly, peremptorily, peremptory), gebieterisch (authoritative, domineering, imperative, imperiously, lordly, magisterial, magisterially, masterful, peremptorily, peremptory), befehlshaberisch. (various references)

Greek		επιτακτικός (intensive, mandatory), αγέρωχοσ (arrogant, cocky, haughty, magisterial, overbearing), αυταρχικόσ (autocratic, autocratical, bossy, despotic, magisterial, officious, overbearing, peremptory, self-assertive), αυταρχικός (bossy, domineering), αλαζονικός (arrogant, conceited), δεσποτικόσ (absolute, magisterial, masterful), δεσποτικός (autocrat, despotic). (various references)

Hebrew		שתלטני (bossy, dominant, domineering, high and mighty, masterful, overbearing), דחוף (express, instant, pressing, urgent), רודני (despotic, dictatorial, totalitarian, tyrannical). (various references)

Hungarian		zsarnoki (autocratic, autocratical, despotic, heavy-handed, masterful, procrustean, tyrannical, tyrannous), sürgetõ (clamant, urgent), sürgős (exigent, express, express delivery, immediate, importunate, instant, press of business), parancsoló (assertiveness, authoritative, compelling, dictatorial, domineering, imperatival, imperative, imperatorial, magisterial), dölyfös (assuming, haughty, high and mighty, prideful, supercilious). (various references)

Italian		imperioso (authoritative, imperative, masterful, overbearing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		権柄尽く (dictatorial). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		けんぺいづく (dictatorial), はないきがあらい (proud). (various references)

Korean		전제 (Premise, Premises). (various references)

Manx		sareydagh, mooaralagh (ambitious, arrogant, arrogant or haughty person, big-headed, conceited, dignified, haughty; presumptuous, insolent, majestic, ostentatious, presumptuous, proud, vain, vain haughty), ard-vooaralagh, ard-chreeagh, ard-aignagh (highminded, lofty). (various references)

Pig Latin		imperiousay.(various references)

Portuguese		imperioso (bounden, masterful, overbearing, peremptory), urgente (burning, clamant, exigent, immediate, pressing, urgently), soberbo (arrogant, glorious, lofty, lovely, majestic, perk, proud, proud-spirited, superb), premente (pressing), autorit�rio, arrogante (arrogant, assuming, big, cockish, flatulent, haughty, huffish, lord-like, overbearing, perk, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, self-confident, self-pride, self-sufficient, snippy, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish, upstage). (various references)

Romanian		imperios (imperative, indispensable, urgent, urgently), urgent (clamorous, early, emergent, exigent, fast, grave, immediate, immediately, importunate, instant, pressing, special, urgent), poruncitor (authoritative, imperative, imperatively, masterful, overbearing, overbearingly, peremptory), dictatorial (dictatorial, dictatorially). (various references)

Russian		повелительный (authoritative, imperatival, imperative, jussive, overbearing, peremptive, peremptory). (various references)

Scottish		spraiceil (given to severe reproofs). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zapovednički (bossy, commanding, domineering, magisterial, masterful, overbearing, possessive), zapovedan (commanding), naređivački (commanding). (various references)

Spanish		imperioso (imperative, lordly, masterful, overbearing, overriding). (various references)

Swedish		befallande (authoritative, commanding, emperious, imperative, imperial). (various references)

Turkish		zorunlu (bound, bound to, coercible, compulsory, derigueur, enforced, essential, forced, forcedly, imperative, incumbent, indispensable, irremissible, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, obliged, requisite, unavoidable, urgent), zorba (autocratic, autocratical, bully, despot, extortioner, extortionist, high handed, overbearing, persecutor, procrustean, rapacious, ravisher, rowdy, ruffian), otoriter (authoritarian, authoritative, bossy, domineering, strict), mecburi (coercible, compulsory, enforced, enforcedly, forced, forcedly, imperative, indispensable, obligatory), kaçınılmaz (fatal, fated, fateful, indispensable, ineluctable, inevitable, inextricable, irremissible, unavoidable, urgent), buyurucu (authoritative, imperative, masterful, peremptory). (various references)

Ukrainian		владний (arbitrary, authoritarian, authoritative, dictatorial, high and mighty, high handed, imperative, magisterial, masterful, overbearing), настійний (exacting, imperative, instant), деспотичний (arbitrary, autocratic, autocratical, despotic, despotical, domineering, oppressive, satrapic, satrapical, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous). (various references)

Vietnamese		hống hách; độc đoán khẩn cấp, cấp nhiệt, cấp bách (burning, exigent, imperative, instant, pressing, rush). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	imperiosus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Ezekiel Chapter 16, Verse 30
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ti diaqw thn qugatera sou legei kurioV en tw poihsai se tauta panta erga gunaikoV pornhV kai exeporneusaV trisswV
Latin	405	Vulgate	In quo mundabo cor tuum ait Dominus Deus cum facias omnia haec opera mulieris meretricis et procacis
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	In what thing shal Y clense thin herte, seith the Lord God, whanne thou dost alle thes werkis of a womman hoore, and bold to hordom?
Jacobean English	1611	King James	How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
Victorian English	1833	Webster	How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious lewd woman;
Basic English	1964	Ogden	How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;
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Language	Ezekiel Chapter 16, Verse 30
Cebuano	Pagkahuyang gayud sa imong kasingkasing, nagaingon ang Ginoong Jehova, sanglit gibuhat mo kining tanan nga mga butang, ang buhat sa usa ka mahilas nga bigaon;
Croatian	O, kako li slabo bijaše tvoje srce - rijeè je Jahve Gospoda - kad èinjaše ono što rade bludnice najrazvratnije.
Danish	Hvor vansmægtede dog dit Hjerte, lyder det fra den Herre HERREN, da du gjorde alt dette, som kun en arg Skøge kan gøre,
Finnish	Kuinka himosta hiukeava olikaan sinun sydämesi, sanoo Herra, Herra, kun teit tämän kaiken, niinkuin tekee itse pääportto;
French	Quelle faiblesse de coeur tu as eue, dit le Seigneur, l`Éternel, en faisant toutes ces choses, qui sont l`oeuvre d`une maîtresse prostituée!
German	Wie soll ich dir doch dein Herz beschneiden, spricht der HERR HERR, weil du solche Werke tust einer großen Erzhure,
Hungarian	Mily gyenge a szíved, azt mondja az Úr Isten, hogy mindezeket cselekedted, egy rakonczátlan rima cselekedeteit!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi berkata, "Semuanya itu telah kaulakukan seperti pelacur yang tak tahu malu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bagaimana lemah hatimu, demikianlah firman Tuhan Hua, maka engkau membuat segala perkara itu, yaitu perbuatan perempuan sundal yang bukan kepalang.
Italian	Come è stato abbietto il tuo cuore - dice il Signore Dio - facendo tutte queste azioni degne di una spudorata sgualdrina!
Korean	나 주 여 호 와 가 말 하 노 라 네 가 이 모 든 일 을 행 하 니 이 는 방 자 한 음 부 의 행 위 라 네 마 음 이 어 찌 그 리 약 한 지
Maori	Ano te ngoikore o tou ngakau, e ai ta te Ariki, ta Ihowa, i tau mahinga i enei mea katoa, he mahi na te wahine kairau, na te mea taikaha;
Norwegian	Hvor ditt hjerte var vissent, sier Herren, Israels Gud, da du gjorde alt dette, slikt som bare en skamløs skjøge gjør,
Portuguese	Quão fraco é teu coração, diz o Senhor Deus, fazendo tu todas estas coisas, obra duma meretriz desenfreada,
Rumanian	Ce slqbiciune de inimq ai avut, zice Domnul, Dumnezeu, de ai fqcut toate aceste lucruri, cari sknt fapta unei ibovnice dedate la curvie,
Swedish	Huru älskogskrankt var icke ditt hjärta, säger Herren, HERREN, eftersom du gjorde allt detta, sådana gärningar som allenast den fräckaste sköka kan göra.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "imperious": imperiously, imperiousness, imperiousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Imperious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imperio, imperiou, imperiuos, imperous, impertious, imperuious, impervous, impetious, Impudicus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "imperious" (pronounced i'mpi"rēus)
5	-i" r ē u s	deleterious, delirious, mysterious, serious.
4	-r ē u s	curious, denarius, furious, glorious, gregarious, hilarious, illustrious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, laborious, lugubrious, meritorious, nefarious, notorious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, Sartorius, spurious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous.
3	-ē u s	acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, fastidious, felonious, gaseous, harmonious, hideous, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, impervious, insidious, instantaneous, invidious, lascivious, luxurious, melodious, miscellaneous, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, percutaneous, previous, punctilious, radius, sanctimonious, simultaneous, spontaneous, studious, supercilious, tedious, unceremonious.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-m-o-p-r-s-u"
	-2 letters: impious, imposer, mousier, pismire, primsie, promise, semipro, soupier, spumier, supremo, umpires.
	-3 letters: euripi, impose, impure, isomer, moires, mopers, mopier, mouser, opiums, poiser, porism, poseur, primes, primos, primus, proems, purism, rimose, rimous, simper, spirem, surimi, umpire, uprise, uprose.
	-4 letters: emirs, euros, impis, meous, mires, miser, moire, moper, mopes, mores, morse, moues, mouse, mures, muser.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-m-o-p-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: impervious.
	+2 letters: imperiously.
	+3 letters: imperviously, premunitions, semiprecious.
	+4 letters: computerising, imperiousness, importunities, minicomputers, promiscuities, superimposing.
	+5 letters: circumspection, imperviousness, micropublisher, primogenitures, superambitious.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
imperious	5
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Imperious

Definition: Imperious

Imperious

Adjective

Specialty Definition: Imperious

19th Century Satire

Synonym: Imperious

Synonyms within Context: Imperious

Government

Insolence

Necessity

Pride

Thought

Crosswords: Imperious

Modern Usage: Imperious

Screenplays

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Books

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John Locke

Use in Literature: Imperious

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Speeches: Imperious

James Monroe

Martin van Buren

Usage Frequency: Imperious

Expression: Imperious

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Imperious

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Matched Bible Translations: Imperious

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