domineering
Verb
  1. Present participle and gerund of domineer
Adjective

domineering

  1. Overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.
Synonyms Antonyms Translations Noun

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.



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