domineering
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7.4
- adjective
- /ˌdɑːməˈnɪrɪŋ/
:
dominante
- Her domineering attitude made it difficult for anyone to share their opinions in meetings.
- domineering offenders
- a domineering personality
A really domineering looking man that she's with.
- A really domineering looking man that she's with.
- See how the teams are always constituted unequally and the same domineering team always wins the game.
- And they have deep down in understanding that the more prestigious and domineering men on average have better mating outcomes.
- And it's probably the only really domineering fan from the era that these fans were big not.
Examples
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Bette Davis was a mousy girl, who had to escape her domineering mother to find herself.
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Almost all were Irishmen who could strike terror into the heart of the most domineering teacher.
Academic text (1999) -
And that love was replaced by the violence of a domineering father.
Fiction book (1993) -
...rebellion against his domineering father.
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A bachelor, raised by his domineering mother, until she died when he was roughly your age.
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He had a domineering father.
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I don't think that I would be revealing any secret if I were to say that she can be very domineering at times.
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The lawyer is aggressive and domineering; the man is docile and solicitous.
Fiction book (2002) -
The truth was I understood a man deserting a life made miserable by a relentlessly domineering woman.
Fiction book (1997) -
Kellan Brooks has been thrown to the curb by his domineering, wealthy father.
Blog text (13)
Synonyms
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5.0
Being rude and trying too hard to make people do what you want
58
7.5
Expecting people to follow orders and allowing little freedom
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2.6
Being quick to tell people what to do in a forceful, unpleasant way
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5.8
Being proud and trying to control other people
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6.3
Using too much force or strict control when dealing with people
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8.4
Acting like you are better than others and expecting them to obey you
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9.3
Demanding immediate action in a bossy way and allowing no refusal
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5.8
Too forceful or pushy in a way that makes other people uncomfortable
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5.6
Trying to control other people in a forceful or unfair way
A person who controls others too much and does not let them speak
Telling other people what to do too much
Being loud and aggressive to frighten others
Antonyms
How Overbearing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Domineering comes from the Latin word dominus meaning 'lord' and is the same root as dominate, so a domineering person behaves like a 'lord' and tries to control others.