Explore Imperious through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like masterful or domineering. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Imperious meaning
- Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
- Urgent; intensely compelling.
- Imperial or regal.
Synonyms of Imperious
Using Imperious
- The main meaning on this page is: Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing. | Urgent; intensely compelling. | Imperial or regal.
- Useful related words include: masterful, domineering.
- In the example corpus, imperious often appears in combinations such as: in imperious, an imperious, imperious form.
Context around Imperious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 3 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Imperious
- In this selection, "imperious" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, looked, gunners, best, form and ground stand out and add context to how "imperious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include at his imperious best in and believes the imperious brazilian may. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "imperious" sits close to words such as acorns, acrobatics and acura, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with imperious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
One mistake but imperious. (4 words)
Imperious Edwardian dowager, but casual for the beach. (8 words)
Company insiders have described him as increasingly haughty and imperious. (10 words)
Clearly, with the presence of Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker at one end of the field and the cold-blooded streak of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Firmino at the other, Anfield was the most imperious ground in all of the land. (43 words)
Novak Djokovic remains on track for his 10th Australian Open crown after returning to his imperious best and although Andrey Rublev is not looking forward to Wednesday’s quarter-final clash, he is still hoping to stop the Serbian’s title charge. (42 words)
Jones looked imperious as he slipped a left hand from Gane and took him down, trapping him against the cage before adding his new-found bulk at heavyweight to reinforce a guillotine choke and claim the vacant heavyweight title. (39 words)
Or chaste Sylvia, the imperious, unf---able beauty who can talk Wittgenstein, but – ever so inconveniently – suffers from crippling pain? (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
Clearly, with the presence of Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker at one end of the field and the cold-blooded streak of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Firmino at the other, Anfield was the most imperious ground in all of the land.
He hasn’t had a big haul for a while but loves a big occasion and is in imperious touch here.
His deft layoff enabled Isak to direct Newcastle’s angled fifth home in imperious fashion.
Instead, this has been a team below their best of late despite dominating games, with a platform to be in the hunt created by imperious showings at the back.
Jimmy Anderson was at his imperious best in the draw at Nottinghamshire but the home side somehow held out for a draw with just one wicket remaining.
Jones looked imperious as he slipped a left hand from Gane and took him down, trapping him against the cage before adding his new-found bulk at heavyweight to reinforce a guillotine choke and claim the vacant heavyweight title.
Novak Djokovic remains on track for his 10th Australian Open crown after returning to his imperious best and although Andrey Rublev is not looking forward to Wednesday’s quarter-final clash, he is still hoping to stop the Serbian’s title charge.
She is shown to be vulnerable and upset by her imperious father’s remarriage after her mother’s death.
Swiatek has won both previous meetings with world number 86 Peterson and came through this encounter on Arthur Ashe Stadium in imperious style.
The Gunners’ imperious form sees them ahead of back-to-back champions Manchester City’s points tally at this stage in each of the last two seasons.
The response was exemplary, as for the last 20 minutes, Roscommon were imperious.
He was the physical embodiment to Iran’s west of its unforgiving ideology, the chief colonial emissary of its imperious theocratic ambitions.
One mistake but imperious.
Or chaste Sylvia, the imperious, unf---able beauty who can talk Wittgenstein, but – ever so inconveniently – suffers from crippling pain?
Slot believes the imperious Brazilian may now be out for a while.
The Indians were in imperious form at the Adidas Arena, which will be the venue of the badminton event at the Paris Olympics 2024.
But the numbers aren’t academic – they’re fun: along with some unusual instructions to the singers such as “imperious, but less certain”.
Company insiders have described him as increasingly haughty and imperious.
Héloïse’s countess mother (played with imperious fragility by Valeria Golino) intends to send the painting to a Milanese nobleman; if he approves, her daughter will be wed and they will both be transported to a new life.
Imperious Edwardian dowager, but casual for the beach.
Common combinations with imperious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in imperious 7×
- an imperious 7×
- imperious form 6×
- the imperious 4×
- his imperious 3×
- imperious best 3×
- imperious in 3×
- most imperious 2×
- looked imperious 2×
- and imperious 2×