domineering
English
Verb
domineering
Adjective
domineering (comparative more domineering, superlative most domineering)
Synonyms
- bossy, assertive, dominant, forceful, commanding, pushy, strong-willed, arbitrary, oppressive, regnant
- See also Thesaurus:bossy
Antonyms
Translations
overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
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Noun
domineering (plural domineerings)
- The act of one who domineers.
- (Can we date this quote?), 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.
- (Can we date this quote?), Herman Melville, Moby-Dick