Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of domineer
comparative more domineering · superlative most domineering
- Overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.
Synonyms: bossy, assertive, dominant, forceful, commanding, pushy, strong-willed, arbitrary
plural domineerings
- 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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivetending to domineer
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian властен, тираничен
- властен (vlasten)overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
- тираничен (tiraničen)overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
Chinese Mandarin 專橫 /专横, 跋扈
- 專橫 /专横 (zhuānhèng)overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
- 跋扈 (báhù)overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
Finnish määräilevä, komenteleva
- määräileväoverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
- komentelevaoverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
French dominateur
- dominateuroverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
German kontrollsüchtig, herrschsüchtig
- kontrollsüchtigoverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
- herrschsüchtigoverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
Hebrew שתלטני
- שתלטני (shtaltaní)overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
Japanese 高飛車, S (S)
- 高飛車 (takabisha)overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
- S (S)overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
Latin imperiōsus
- imperiōsusoverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
Polish apodyktyczny, despotyczny
- apodyktycznyoverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
- despotycznyoverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
- władczyoverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
Romanian dominant, dominator
- dominantoverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
- dominatoroverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
Russian вла́стный, тирани́чный
- вла́стный (vlástnyj)overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
- тирани́чный (tiraníčnyj)overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
Spanish dominante, dominador
- dominanteoverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
- dominadoroverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
- domeñanteoverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
Swedish dominant
- dominantoverbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
Cite this entry
domineering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/domineering
“domineering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/domineering. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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