Definition of Imperious

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Definition of Imperious
	Imperious Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic. Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner. Imperative; urgent; compelling. Related Definitions: An, Arrogant, As, Ascendant, Commanding, Compelling, Imperative, Imperial, Imperious, Lordly, Majestic, Manner, Overbearing, Tyrant, Urgent

Imperious Quotations

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
George Sand

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
Pete Townshend

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Helen Hunt Jackson

Imperious Translations

imperious in German is herrisch, gebieterisch, befehlshaberisch
imperious in Latin is imperiosus
imperious in Spanish is imperioso
imperious in Swedish is befallande

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