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Synonyms:
- subject, governance, judiciary, delegacy, consent, hotshot, ascendancy, persuasion, captain, ascendance, blook, command, whiz, charge, suasiveness, proprietress, court, imprimatur, ability, executive, the authorities, heft, head, police force, autobiography, sharp, assurance, influence, permission, his lordship, front, conclusiveness, master, shark, bias, self-confidence, puissance, censor, administrator, manager, authorization, dictum, connoisseur, direction, setup, allowance, grip, stature, star, official, chest of drawers, authentication, forcefulness, government, maestro, importance, observer, pro, pundit, professional, professor, office staff, business office, potential, critic, proficient, crackerjack, commander, dean, liberty, place, dab, government agency, clutch, officer, philosopher, leverage, mandarin, bible, biography, journeyman, atlas, powerfulness, enfranchisement, quartermaster, control, the force, arbitrator, commandant, wizard, pledge, sage, ascendence, competence, part, punch, genius, office, justice, moderator, dominance, exemption, squire, energy, means, source, domination, technician, dominion, club, pressure, permit, position, magistrate, the fuzz, precedence, post, countenance, the Garda, monopoly, expert, mandate, leader, lord chancellor, confidence, indorsement, credential, function, laterality, leave, coordination, certification, pronouncement, director, over, grasp, motive, primacy, judge, steam, why, convincingness, superiority, dispensation, grounds, chief, landlord, law, structure, right, self-assurance, federal agency, representation, license, kingship, sovereignty, president, seniority, special interest, ruler, rein, bureaucracy, almanac, title, rank, doctor, regime, titleholder, berth, jurisdiction, force, empowerment, veteran, birthright, situation, prestige, constabulary, reign, prepotency, leadership, substantiation, privilege, study at, referee, vigor, spot, potency, prowess, fiend, specialist, sanction, institution, management, meister, hand, juice, supremacy, negotiator, wise person, dresser, senior, might, weight, power, purview, Lord, prerogative, thinker, mahatma, landlady, kingpin, endorsement, rule, trust, competency, in, scholar, bestseller, chest, sire, pull, approval, regimen, his honor, the intelligentsia, guru, wherefore, effectiveness, motivation, mediator, strength, validation, past master, hold, commission, reconciler, consultant, administration, sophisticate, guild, way, role, adjudicator, police, principal, authorisation, sureness, governor, virtuoso, clearance, confirmation, warrant, proprietor, buff, federation, mastery, the (old) bill, billet, mother, credit, bureau, sway, entitlement, the boys in blue, intellectual, headmaster, umpire, dab hand, cogency, the law, oligopoly, faculty, geek, potence, mightiness, artist, verification, agency, annual, cabinet, cognoscente, maven, ace, persuasiveness, will, abbot, headmistress, clout, predominance, potentiality, discipline, death grip, arm, greatness, say-so, account, ascendency, anthology, adept, savant
Examples:
- - Can I do that without some authority? - "Who Goes There?", Blackwood Ketcham Benson
- - Kitty was not always particular about any authority for names, if they sounded well. - "Marjorie's New Friend", Carolyn Wells
- - You never, however, inquired by what authority he kept his wife shut up? - "Who?", Elizabeth Kent
Antonyms:
- dilettante, feebleness, ineffectiveness, prevention, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, refusal, objection, invalidity, opposition, nonprofessional, powerlessness, beginner, impotency, denial, prohibition, neophyte, hindrance, impotence, resistance, inexpert, layman, unsoundness, weakness, shakiness, apprentice, novice, dabbler, helplessness, nonexpert, amateur, inconclusiveness