1. peremptory - Noun
2. peremptory - Adjective
3. peremptory - Adjective Satellite
Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final.
Positive in opinion or judgment; decided; dictatorial; dogmatical.
Firmly determined; unawed.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMan seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own. William Cowper
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart. F. Scott Fitzgerald
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power, for you necessarily feel some towards him; and since he will take no denial, you must comply with his peremptory demands, or send for a constable, which out of respect for his character you will not do. William Hazlitt
The disconnected impressions which we derive from life form a kind of knowledge ‘in growth,' as Bacon called it; an over-early and peremptory attempt to digest this knowledge into a system tends, as he suggests, to falsify and distort it. Logan Pearsall Smith
Scientific knowledge, even in the most modest persons, has mingled with it a something which partakes of insolence. Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies, and those who keep company with them are apt to get a bullying habit of mind. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.