1. Present participle and gerund of domineer

domineering

1. Overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.

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

• submissive

• French: dominateur
• German: kontrollsüchtig, herrschsüchtig
• Russian: вла́стный
• Spanish: dominante

domineering (plural domineerings)

1. The act of one who domineers.
   • 1851 November 13, 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.