Definition of Authoritative

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Authoritative

Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.

Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone.

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Authoritative Quotations

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.
John L. Lewis

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
Barbara Walters

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee

Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative.
Christy Romano

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.
Kent McCord

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.
Nursultan Nazarbayev

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
Jonathan Dimbleby

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
Anna Garlin Spencer

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
Brian Lamb

Authoritative Translations

authoritative in German is herrisch, gebieterisch
authoritative in Italian is imperioso
authoritative in Latin is professorius
authoritative in Spanish is con autoridad
authoritative in Swedish is officiella

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