authoritarian state

1. 1.

   a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people

   Synonymsauthoritarian regime

   Broadergovernment

Questions about authoritarian state

What does authoritarian state mean?

authoritarian state means "a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people".

What is another word for authoritarian state?

Close synonyms include authoritarian regime. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is authoritarian state a common word?

authoritarian state is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.