| Feudal 1. (a.) Pertaining to feuds, lords, and vassals, as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures. 2. (a.) Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system. Thesaurus Entries absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bossy, client, dependent, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, feodal, feudatory, grinding, high-handed, imperative, imperial, imperious, inferior, liege, lordly, magisterial, magistral, manorial, masterful, monocratic, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, peremptory, praedial, real, repressive, seigneurial, seignioral, servile, severe, strict, subject, subordinate, subservient, suppressive, tributary, tyrannical, tyrannous, vassal |