domineering

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Verb

1. present participle of domineer#English|domineer

Adjective

domineering

1. overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• submissive

Translations

• French: dominateur
• Russian: вла́стный

Noun

domineering (plural domineerings)

1. 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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