undomineering

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adjective

Not domineering.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveundomineering (comparative more undomineering, superlative most undomineering)

comparative more undomineering · superlative most undomineering

  1. Not domineering.

    The two sisters have left home and live with their undomineering husbands.

    1973, Sasson Somekh, The Changing Rhythm: A Study of Najīb Maḥfūẓ’s Novels, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 128
    2 more examples

    I own myſelf a lover, perhaps to enthuſiaſm, of the mild, undomineering, ſweet-tempered government to which I feel myself indebted for the ſecurity and repoſe ſo dear to my heart.

    1791, J. Debrett, A letter to the right honourable Edmund Burke, 2nd edition, London, page 128

    Jeremy was the exact opposite of Pete – caring, gentle, undomineering, cultured – while Julia was not at all shrewish or demanding like Jeremy’s ex Mandy.

    2016, Stephen Goldenberg, Car Wheels on a Gravel Drive, Troubador Publishing Ltd

Origin

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