domineering

English

Verb

domineering

present participle of domineer

Adjective

domineering (comparative more domineering, superlative most domineering)

overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian

Synonyms

bossy, assertive, dominant, forceful, commanding, pushy, strong-willed, arbitrary, oppressive, regnant
See also Thesaurus:bossy

Antonyms

submissive

Translations

overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian

Bulgarian: властен (bg) (vlasten), тираничен (bg) (tiraničen)
French: dominateur (fr)
Hebrew: שתלטני‎ m (shtaltaní)
Ido: dominacachanta
Japanese: 高飛車 (takabisha)

Latin: imperiōsus
Manx: mainshtyragh
Romanian: dominant (ro), dominator (ro) m
Russian: вла́стный (ru) (vlástnyj), тирани́чный (ru) (tiraníčnyj)
Swedish: dominant (sv)

Noun

domineering (plural domineerings)

The act of one who domineers.
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.

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