DOMINEERING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Tending to domineer

Classified under:

Adjectives

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)

-ing form of the verb domineer