domineering

English

Verb

domineering

present participle and gerund 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)
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)
Swedish: dominant (sv)

Noun

domineering (plural domineerings)

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.

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