peremptory
adjective
[ pəˈrɛm(p)t(ə)ri ]
• insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way.
• "‘Just do it!’ came the peremptory reply"
Similar:
brusque,
imperious,
high-handed,
brisk,
abrupt,
summary,
commanding,
authoritative,
overbearing,
dogmatic,
autocratic,
dictatorial,
bossy,
domineering,
arbitrary,
arrogant,
overweening,
lordly,
tyrannical,
despotic,
imperial,
magisterial,
authoritarian,
emphatic,
firm,
insistent,
imperative,
positive,
Origin:
late Middle English (as a legal term): via Anglo-Norman French from Latin peremptorius ‘deadly, decisive’, from perempt- ‘destroyed, cut off’, from the verb perimere, from per- ‘completely’ + emere ‘take, buy’.
