DOMINEERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does domineering mean? 

• DOMINEERING (adjective)
  The adjective DOMINEERING has 1 sense:

1. tending to domineer

  Familiarity information: DOMINEERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMINEERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to domineer

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)

 Context examples 

It’s possible, though, that the person acting in a domineering way might be your partner, not you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Servile and fawning as he had been before, he was now as domineering and bellicose.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

On that day, you may come up against a very stubborn, domineering person who won’t want to accept anything you present.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Also I carried the dirk in a sheath at my hip, sailor-fashion, and maintained toward Thomas Mugridge a constant attitude which was composed of equal parts of domineering, insult, and contempt.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If you face a domineering person, you seem to have ideas of how best to deal with the situation and emerge unscathed.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In spite of his fear at the reckoning he must expect to pay for what he had done, he could see that it had been an object-lesson to me, and he became more domineering and exultant.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At work, if you have been working under a tough boss, that person may now either quit or will downplay the domineering tactics.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This suggests tactics of an authority figure who has not exercised power and influence fairly will find that the usual formulas and domineering behavior won’t work as well in the future, perhaps to the puzzlement of this highly placed individual.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)