Domineering

Word DOMINEERING
Character 11
Hyphenation dom i neer ing
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Domineering"

What do we mean by domineering?

Arrogant in asserting or attempting to assert one's will over others; overbearing. synonym: dictatorial. adjective

Overbearing.

Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. adjective

Present participle of domineer. verb

Overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian adjective

Tending to domineer adjective

To rule over or control arbitrarily or arrogantly; to tyrannize.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Domineering

The word "domineering" in example sentences

Similarly, 'to domineer' is a verb, and the word domineering comes from that. ❋ Chirayu (2004)

The son claimed his relationship with his mother, whom he described as domineering, was poor even before he met his wife. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Matt Bradley (2011)

The only other portrayal of Jewish women at that time was the polar opposite of the belle juive, namely the domineering, masculinized hag. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He has been described as the domineering disciplinarian who set her straight. [email protected] (2010)

An intelligent, take-charge, in-your-face, dominant not "domineering" man is not sexist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Chris Matthews will find Michelle Obama just a bit "domineering," you know? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet people on TV will call you "domineering" because you're an outspoken woman. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But her body-language seems to go beyond that into "domineering" posture, which turns me off without regard to gender or creed. ❋ Jhetley (2008)

Salas Chávez describes his mother Elia Zepeda as a "domineering" woman who imposed a regimen of "harsh discipline" throughout his boyhood. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Conversational and readable, cliched in its larger plot, lacking fresh imagery or arresting wordplay, and unconvincing in the judgments it tries to shove down the reader's throat: that Kliman is a "domineering" jerk, that Jamie doesn't know what she wants in a man, that Amy remained satisfied with just four years of Lonoff because she'd had the privilege of being "in love with a great man." ❋ TEV (2007)

KURTZ: Is that because so many journalists live in New York, lived through his two terms of mayor, and saw him as a kind of domineering, even bullying-like figure who was not going to play well in the rest of the country? ❋ Unknown (2007)

His famous statement after the Six Day War about Jews being a "domineering" people alienated French and American Jews and Gentiles. ❋ Kurlansky, Mark (2004)

Footsteps on Clouds: Personal: On Blogging and the word 'domineering' ❋ Chirayu (2004)

Actually, I don't know why I get that way sometimes ... "domineering", I guess you can say ... ❋ Ugotsoul (2002)

English housewife going into her kitchen and finding it so inexpressibly dirty that her feet are literally rooted to the ground, is apt to express a very decided opinion, despite the presence of a dozen or more of gossips smoking their pipes round the fire; but her remarks are hardly likely to be taken in good part, and she is classed as a "domineering" person forthwith. ❋ Bernard H. Becker (N/A)

Margit would be busy with housework most of the morning, or in the kitchen, helping Selina -- "domineering," ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Slavery was a rich soil for the production of a mixed race, and one need only read the literature and laws of the past two generations to see how steadily, albeit slowly and insidiously, the stream of dark blood has insinuated itself into the veins of the dominant, or, as a Southern critic recently described it in a paragraph that came under my eye, the "domineering" race. ❋ Unknown (1895)

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