An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DOMINEERING
domineering
(adjective) tending to domineer
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
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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