Domineering

adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·4 syllables ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of one who domineers.

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of domineer form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.
Adjective
  1. 1
    tending to domineer wordnet

Synonyms

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bossyhigh and mightyoppressiveoverbearingabsoluteabsolutist

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"You saw how domineering Tom was."

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