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peremptory

Pronunciation: /pəˈɹɛmptəɹi/

The English word “peremptory” has 6 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal.
  2. Of a date or deadline, absolutely requiring compliance or attendance; brooking no further delay; proceeding whether a party attends or not; final.
  3. Positive in opinion or judgment; absolutely certain, overconfident, unwilling to hear any debate or argument (especially in a pejorative sense); dogmatic.
  4. Firmly determined, resolute; obstinate, stubborn.
  5. Accepting no refusal or disagreement; imperious, dictatorial.

noun

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

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”).

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