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domineering en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.

Forms

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most domineering Degree=Sup lexicographic
more domineering Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

submissive

Deriveds

domineeringness · domineeringly · undomineering

Synonyms

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

Translations (26)

cmn 專橫 /专横 (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · ja S (S) (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · ja 高飛車 (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · he שתלטני (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · bg властен (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · sv dominant (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · de kontrollsüchtig (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · es domeñante (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · cmn 跋扈 (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · pl władczy (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · de herrschsüchtig (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · ro dominant (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · es dominante (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · fi komenteleva (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · pl apodyktyczny (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · ru тирани́чный (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · la imperiōsus (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · es dominador (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · ro dominator (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · io dominacachanta (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · fr dominateur (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · pl despotyczny (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · gv mainshtyragh (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · fi määräilevä (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · bg тираничен (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian) · ru вла́стный (overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian)

domineering en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. 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. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

Forms

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domineerings Number=Plur lexicographic

domineering en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of domineer
    form of domineer