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

adj. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance"

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles

adj. of or characteristic of high rank or importance; "a superior officer"

adj. 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

adj. befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior

adj. having or suggesting a consciousness of high position; "recited the decree with an important air"; "took long important strides in the direction of his office"

adj. impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns"

adj. not allowing contradiction or refusal; "spoke in peremptory tones"; "peremptory commands"

adj. endowed with talent or talents; " a gifted writer"

adj. highest in excellence or achievement; "supreme among musicians"; "a supreme endxxeavor"; "supreme courage"

adj. have the skills and qualifications to do things well; "able teachers"; "a capable administrator"; "children as young as 14 can be extremely capable and dependable"

adj. of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"

adj. highest in quality

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

adj. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"

adj. noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others

adj. given to haughty disregard of others

adj. unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"

adj. marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"

adj. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching"

adj. expert in skulduggery; "an arch criminal"

adj. used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit; "a ball-hawking center fielder"

adj. marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique; "a surgeon's delicate touch"

adj. "a master plumber"; "a master thief"

adj. excellent; "famous for a mean backhand"

adj. (skilled)

adj. proficient and confident in performance; "promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts"

adj. competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another; "a versatile writer"