How do you pronounce peremptory?

The recorded pronunciation is /pəˈɹɛmptəɹi/.

peremptory

/pəˈɹɛmptəɹi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English

Syllables: peremp-to-ry
IPA: /pəˈɹɛmptəɹi/

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Meaning

adj

Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal.

adj

Of a date or deadline, absolutely requiring compliance or attendance; brooking no further delay; proceeding whether a party attends or not; final.

adj

Positive in opinion or judgment; absolutely certain, overconfident, unwilling to hear any debate or argument (especially in a pejorative sense); dogmatic.

adj

Firmly determined, resolute; obstinate, stubborn.

Obsolete

adj

Accepting no refusal or disagreement; imperious, dictatorial.

noun

A challenge to the admission of a juror, without the challenger needing to show good cause.

Example Sentences

"there is no reason but if any of the outlawries be indeed without error, but it should be a peremptory plea to the person in a writ of error, as well as in any other action."
"As this trial has now been postponed multiple times, there will be an adjournment to April 24, peremptory on the parties."
"He marched under a placard reading "End Bossiness Now" but decided it was a little too peremptory, not quite British, so changed the slogan on subsequent badges, to "End Bossiness Soon.""
"Upon the other hand, there are a great many people who, having no private property of their own, and being always on the brink of sheer starvation, are compelled to do the work of beasts of burden, to do work that is quite uncongenial to them, and to which they are forced by the peremptory, unreasonable, degrading Tyranny of want."
"[…] less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart."
"Though today (surveying that yellowing document) I shudder at the peremptory tone of the instructions I gave, Alastair - in that same volume in which I get chastised for my coverage of the Macmillan rally - was generous enough to remark that my memorandum became 'an office classic'."

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman peremptorie, parentorie et al. (Modern French péremptoire), and its source, Latin peremptōrius (“deadly; precluding debate, decisive”), from perimō (“destroy, thwart”), from per- (“thorough”) + emō (“to obtain, buy”).

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /pəˈɹɛmptəɹi/

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more peremptory (comparative) most peremptory (superlative) peremptories (plural)

Derived Forms

overperemptory peremptorily peremptoriness unperemptory

Phrases

peremptory challenge

Frequently Paired Words

preemptory

Synonyms

positive absolute decisive conclusive final autocratic bossy dominating high-and-mighty magisterial