Domineering

Verb

1. Present participle of domineer

Full definition of domineering

Adjective

1. overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian

Synonyms

• bossy, assertive, dominant, forceful, commanding, pushy, strong-willed, arbitrary, oppressive, regnant

Antonyms

• submissive

Noun

1. The act of one who domineers.
• Herman Melville, Moby-DickIn 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.