Meaning of DOMINEERING
| Pronunciation: | | `dâmu'neering
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| | Definition: | | [adj] tending to domineer |
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| | Synonyms: | | authoritarian, autocratic, blustery, bossy, bullying, cavalier, dictatorial, dominating, heavy-handed, high-and-mighty, high-handed, imperious, magisterial, masterful, oppressive, overbearing, peremptory, roughshod, tyrannical, tyrannous |
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| | Antonyms: | | submissive | | |
| | See Also: | | immodest | |
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| | Definition: | | \Dom`i*neer"ing\, a.
Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.
A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. --Blackw.
Mag.
Syn: Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See {Imperious}. --
{Dom`i*neer"ing*ly}, adv.
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| | Related Terms: | | absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrariness, arbitrary, argumentum baculinum, aristocratic, arrogance, arrogant, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, authoritarian, authoritarianism, authoritative, authoritativeness, autocratic, autocraticalness, big, big stick, bossism, bossy, condescendence, condescending, condescension, despotic, despotism, dictatorial, domination, domineeringness, fascism, feudal, grinding, hard, harsh, haughtiness, haughty, haughty airs, hauteur, heavy hand, high and mighty, high hand, high horse, high-faluting, high-flown, high-handed, high-headed, high-nosed, hoity-toitiness, hoity-toity, imperative, imperativeness, imperial, imperious, imperiousness, insolent, iron boot, iron hand, iron heel, loftiness, lofty, lordliness, lordly, magisterial, magisterialness, magistral, magistrality, masterful, masterfulness, monocratic, officious, Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, oppression, oppressive, overbearance, overbearing, overbearing pride, overbearingness, overruling, overweening pride, patronization, patronizing, patronizing attitude, peremptoriness, peremptory, pride, proud, proudness, purse-pride, purse-proud, pushy, reign of terror, repressive, severe, side, stiff-necked pride, strict, stuck-up, superbia, superior, suppressive, terrorism, thought control, toploftiness, toplofty, tough, tyrannical, tyrannicalness, tyrannous, tyranny, uppish, uppishness, uppity, uppityness, upstage |
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