DOMINEERING

domineering

(adjective) tending to domineer

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

domineering

present participle of domineer

Adjective

domineering (comparative more domineering, superlative most domineering)

overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian

Synonyms

• bossy, assertive, dominant, forceful, commanding, pushy, strong-willed, arbitrary, oppressive, regnant

• See also bossy

Antonyms

• submissive

Noun

domineering (plural domineerings)

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.

Source: Wiktionary

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Dom`i*neer"ing, a.

Definition: Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag.

Syn.

– Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See Imperious.

– Dom`i*neer"ing*ly, adv.

DOMINEER

Dom`i*neer", v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Domineered; p. pr. & vb. n. Domineering.] Etym: [F. dominer, L. dominari: cf. OD. domineren to feast luxuriously. See Dominate, v. t.]

Definition: To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents. Go to the feast, revel and domineer. Shak. His wishes tend abroad to roam, And hers to domineer at home. Prior.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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