domineering

English

Verb

domineering

1. present participle and gerund of domineer

Adjective

domineering (comparative more domineering, superlative most domineering)

1. Overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• submissive

Derived terms

• domineeringly
• domineeringness
• undomineering

 

Translations

overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian

Bulgarian: властен (bg) (vlasten), тираничен (bg) (tiraničen) Finnish: määräilevä, komenteleva French: dominateur (fr) German: kontrollsüchtig, herrschsüchtig (de) Hebrew: שתלטני m (shtaltaní) Ido: dominacachanta Japanese: 高飛車 (takabisha), S (ja) (S) Latin: imperiōsus Manx: mainshtyragh Romanian: dominant (ro), dominator (ro) m Russian: вла́стный (ru) (vlástnyj), тирани́чный (ru) (tiraníčnyj) Spanish: dominante (es), dominador, domeñante Swedish: dominant (sv)

Noun

domineering (plural domineerings)

1. The act of one who domineers.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     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.