We found 37 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word peremptory:
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
- peremptory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- peremptory: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- peremptory: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- peremptory: Wordnik [home, info]
- peremptory: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- peremptory: Wiktionary [home, info]
- peremptory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- peremptory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- peremptory: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- peremptory: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- peremptory: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- peremptory: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- peremptory: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- Peremptory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Peremptory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- peremptory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- peremptory: Rhymezone [home, info]
- Peremptory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- peremptory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- peremptory: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
- Peremptory: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
- peremptory: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- peremptory: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
- peremptory: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- peremptory: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- peremptory: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- peremptory: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
Business (7 matching dictionaries)
- peremptory: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
- Peremptory: Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary [home, info]
- peremptory: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
- peremptory: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
- PEREMPTORY: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
- peremptory: Legal dictionary [home, info]
- peremptory: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- peremptory: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
- peremptory: online medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
- peremptory: A Word A Day [home, info]
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Quick definitions (peremptory)
▸ adjective: putting an end to all debate or action ("A peremptory decree")
▸ adjective: not allowing contradiction or refusal ("Spoke in peremptory tones")
▸ adjective: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power ("A swaggering peremptory manner")
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