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DOMINEERING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending to domineer
Classified under:
Similar:
authoritarian; dictatorial; overbearing (expecting unquestioning obedience)
autocratic; bossy; dominating; high-and-mighty; magisterial; peremptory (offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power)
blustery; bullying (noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others)
cavalier; high-handed (given to haughty disregard of others)
heavy-handed; roughshod (unjustly domineering)
oppressive; tyrannical; tyrannous (marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior)
Also:
immodest (having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc)
Antonym:
submissive (inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination)
Derivation:
domineeringness (the trait of being imperious and overbearing)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb domineer
