Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tending to domineer; overbearing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Overbearing. Synonyms Authoritative, Dogmatic, etc. See
magisterial .
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of domineer.
- adj. overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. tending to domineer
Examples
“Similarly, 'to domineer' is a verb, and the word domineering comes from that.”
“The son claimed his relationship with his mother, whom he described as domineering, was poor even before he met his wife.”
“Even after Brotherhood youth helped oust former President Hosni Mubarak in a nearly three-week uprising in February, the 83-year-old organization has continued to operate as it always has, with what dissident members call a domineering, top-down leadership structure.”
“The only other portrayal of Jewish women at that time was the polar opposite of the belle juive, namely the domineering, masculinized hag.”
Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America.
“He has been described as the domineering disciplinarian who set her straight.”
“An intelligent, take-charge, in-your-face, dominant not "domineering" man is not sexist.”
“Chris Matthews will find Michelle Obama just a bit "domineering," you know?”
“Yet people on TV will call you "domineering" because you're an outspoken woman.”
“But her body-language seems to go beyond that into "domineering" posture, which turns me off without regard to gender or creed.”
“Salas Chávez describes his mother Elia Zepeda as a "domineering" woman who imposed a regimen of "harsh discipline" throughout his boyhood.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘domineering’.
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Dominant/Submissive
abusive, adamant, autocratic, bossy, bullheaded, bumptious, certain, cock-a-hoop, cocksure, cocky, commanding, compelling and 189 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Words
Different Words
collectress, tachygenesis, star-scattered, liquescent, hyemation, boggler, springal, domineering, emove, repugn, kea, pettah and 19 more...
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--eering
a listing with a suffix that makes ears ring and eardrums roil
engineering, cheering, sheering, pioneering, steering, orienteering, westeering, volunteering, northeering, southeering, veering, reveering and 79 more...
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And i thought my words were "bad"!
malevolent, machiavellian, duplicitous, deceitful, rancorous, spiteful, malignant, cunning, vindictive, tyrannical, imperious, despotic and 10 more...
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Favorites
disparage, partisan, cupidity, hokum, tussle, odious, dastardly, overture, plane, chronic, peering, peer and 328 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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My Self-Descriptors: A Mirror of Text
Read this list, and read it well. When you finish, you'll know me better than my mother. That is, unless she reads this list too.
libertarian, unorthodox, unfinished, sincere, frugal, lanky, introspective, critical, laid-back, taciturn, lexiphilic, kindly and 115 more...
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Words Words and more Words
ruckus, bustle, ominous, odious, abominable, atrocious, appal, abysmal, dismal, calamity, debacle, fiasco and 231 more...
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5-1
Hecko, words! Thanks for staying with me. :-)
avenue, viscous, zeroth, usher, scarcely, viability, snout, sole, purify, riotous, menace, moist and 364 more...
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Venus In Furs
disinter, subjugate, sober down, domineering, wantonly, coquettish, cossack, maxim, pasha, anvil, hoarfrost, carpathian and 51 more...
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Coined by Shakespeare
William Shakespeare had a masterful command of the English language. But did you know he helped create it? Here's just a few of the words first used by the Bard in his plays.
alligator, dawn, lonely, drug, eyeball, undress, puke, domineering, inaudible, pander, amazement, leapfrog and 3 more...
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weird
strange, unusual, out of the box, different, diverse, unique, weird, unbelievable, impossible, catnip, domineering, somnambulist and 20 more...
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Colbert Intro
bigness, courage, eager-beaver, fearlessness, gerry-mandering, good marksmanship, integrity, prestige, savage pride, megamerican, actionable, anti-phlegmatic and 33 more...
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June1stYR
dodgy, sketchy, shady, slight, queue, clue, vie, flogging, invoke, domineering, cheap skate, cheapskate and 11 more...
Tweets
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tbtabby Shakespeare adapted this word into English from the Dutch verb "domineren."
Love's Labor Lost, Act 3, Scene 1:
"A domineering pedant o'er the boy." Sep 2, 2009