Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

Adjective

Adjective

The word "boss" can be used as noun, verb, proper noun, adjective and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

employee

Typical Location

business conference desk meeting

Capable Of

advance employee's salary busy employee busy secretary busy workers consider giving raise control employee decide to fire demand hard work demand to see results except people from rule farm work out to underlings fire everyone fire pee ons fire subordinate fire white man force to work overtime measure empolyee order to do work order to run errands out future employee out underling page employee page worker pay employee sign contract spend money storm in tell what to do view results

Causes Desire

illustrate point take care of proposals

Coordinate Terms

ear eye tuberosity

Derived Terms

Boss of the Plains antiboss boss about boss around boss battle boss bitch boss boy boss button boss fight boss head boss key boss rush boss up boss-eyed bossdom bossfight bossful bosshood bossish bossism bossless bosslet bosslike bossling bossly bossman bossnapping bossocracy bossware bosswoman bossy deboss emboss final boss fire boss girlboss grandboss like a boss meet the new boss, same as the old boss midboss mini-boss miniboss one's own boss overboss overboss pannikin boss party boss pit boss pit-boss show someone who's boss show who's boss show who's the boss straw boss superboss teach someone who's the boss teach who's boss teach who's the boss underboss walking boss who died and made you boss you're the boss

Desires

honest dependable employees more and more productivity from workers work

Etymologically Related To

bass beat

Context

american archery architecture canadian geology humorous india liverpool mechanics slang video games

Has Property

demanding

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

employer impress imprint leader person pol political leader politician politico projection supervisor

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

CEO chief executive officer criminal leader executive executive officer floor manager foreman general manager line manager middle manager provost stage manager straw boss

Type Of (IsA)

employer human leader person

Related Terms

associate employer important person officer ruler

Related Terms

around business captain chief company company chief control coworker cylinder district emboss employer enemy first rate group hassock head hole intersection knob leader level lump management manager material office office manager ordering ordering around party political projection protrusion protuberance quality region reservoir rib rock seniority shield supervisor swelling target team the vault water wife work work manager

Similar Terms

manager superior superior

Synonym Network

bruce springsteen emboss foreman knob party boss

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.