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/pəˈɹɛmpt(ə)ɹəli/ · adverb
In a peremptory manner; in a commanding tone, brooking no delay..
He was peremptorily summoned to see the commanding officer.
1597, Francis Bacon, Essays, New York: T.Y. Cromwell, 1901, LVII, "Of Anger", p. 233, https://archive.org/details/essaysoffrancisb00baco […] that you doe not peremptorily break off, in any Businesse, in a Fitt of Anger: But howsoever you shew Bitternes, do not Act any thing, that is not Revocable.
I shall not peremptorily deny, that from most of such mixt bodies as partake either of animal or vegetable nature, there may by the help of the fire be actually obtained a determinate number […] of substances, worthy of differing denominations.
How have I offended you? Twice have I called this morning, and each time you have been peremptorily denied.
[…] the door-bell jingled peremptorily, and the girl left waiting on the table to go and answer it.
"Never mind that!" here peremptorily broke in the superior, his face altering with anger […]
Use peremptorily when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Peremptorily means In a peremptory manner; in a commanding tone, brooking no delay..
Common synonyms include imperatively.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was peremptorily summoned to see the commanding officer.
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