About The Word Domineering

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Domineering

Domineering Meaning & Definition
Domineering Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Domineering?

[adj] tending to domineer

Synonyms | Synonyms for Domineering: authoritarian | autocratic | blustery | bossy | bullying | cavalier | dictatorial | dominating | heavy-handed | high-and-mighty | high-handed | imperious | magisterial | masterful | oppressive | overbearing | peremptory | roughshod | tyrannical | tyrannous

Related Terms | Find terms related to Domineering: absolute | absolutist | absolutistic | arbitrariness | arbitrary | argumentum baculinum | aristocratic | arrogance | arrogant | arrogantness | assumption of superiority | authoritarian | authoritarianism | authoritative | authoritativeness | autocratic | autocraticalness | big | big stick | bossism | bossy | condescendence | condescending | condescension | despotic | despotism | dictatorial | domination | domineeringness | fascism | feudal | grinding | hard | harsh | haughtiness | haughty | haughty airs | hauteur | heavy hand | high and mighty | high hand | high horse | high-faluting | high-flown | high-handed | high-headed | high-nosed | hoity-toitiness | hoity-toity | imperative | imperativeness | imperial | imperious | imperiousness | insolent | iron boot | iron hand | iron heel | loftiness | lofty | lordliness | lordly | magisterial | magisterialness | magistral | magistrality | masterful | masterfulness | monocratic | officious | Olympian detachment | Olympian loftiness | oppression | oppressive | overbearance | overbearing | overbearing pride | overbearingness | overruling | overweening pride | patronization | patronizing | patronizing attitude | peremptoriness | peremptory | pride | proud | proudness | purse-pride | purse-proud | pushy | reign of terror | repressive | severe | side | stiff-necked pride | strict | stuck-up | superbia | superior | suppressive | terrorism | thought control | toploftiness | toplofty | tough | tyrannical | tyrannicalness | tyrannous | tyranny | uppish | uppishness | uppity | uppityness | upstage

See Also | immodest

Domineering In Webster's Dictionary

\Dom`i*neer"ing\, a. Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. --Blackw. Mag. Syn: Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See {Imperious}. -- {Dom`i*neer"ing*ly}, adv.

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