domineering as an adjective: - 1
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domineering
adjective
1 domineering
Tending to domineer.
Roget 885:
insolent,
haughty,
arrogant,
imperious,
magisterial,
dictatorial,
arbitrary;
high-handed,
high and mighty;
contumelious,
supercilious,
overbearing,
intolerant,
domineering,
overweening,
high-flown.
flippant,
pert,
fresh [U.S.],
cavalier,
saucy,
forward,
impertinent,
malapert.
precocious,
assuming,
would-be,
bumptious.
bluff;
brazen,
shameless,
aweless,
unblushing†,
unabashed;
brazen,
boldfaced-,
barefaced-,
brazen-faced;
dead to shame,
lost to shame.
impudent,
audacious,
presumptuous,
free and easy,
devil-may-care,
rollicking;
jaunty,
janty†;
roistering,
blustering,
hectoring,
swaggering,
vaporing;
thrasonic,
fire eating,
full of sound and fury"
[Macbeth].
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Dutch: heerszuchtig
Polish: arbitralny, apodyktyczny
noun
Roget 739:
severity;
strictness,
harshness
etc.
adj.;
rigor,
stringency,
austerity;
inclemency
etc.
(pitilessness)
914.1;
arrogance
etc.
885;
precisianism†.
arbitrary power;
absolutism,
despotism;
dictatorship,
autocracy,
tyranny,
domineering,
oppression;
assumption,
usurpation;
inquisition,
reign of terror,
martial law;
iron heel,
iron rule,
iron hand,
iron sway;
tight grasp;
brute force,
brute strength;
coercion
etc.
744;
strong hand,
tight hand.
hard lines,
hard measure;
tender mercies [Iron.];
sharp practice;
pipe-clay,
officialism.
tyrant,
disciplinarian,
precisian†,
martinet,
stickler,
bashaw†,
despot,
hard master,
Draco,
oppressor,
inquisitor,
extortioner,
harpy,
vulture;
accipitres†,
birds of prey,
raptorials†,
raptors†.
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Roget 885:
insolence;
haughtiness
etc.
adj.;
arrogance,
airs;
overbearance†;
domineering
etc.
v.;
tyranny
etc.
739.
impertinence;
sauciness
etc.
adj.;
flippancy,
dicacity†,
petulance,
procacity†,
bluster;
swagger,
swaggering
etc.
v.;
bounce;
terrorism.
assumption,
presumption;
beggar on horseback;
usurpation.
impudence,
assurance,
audacity,
hardihood,
front,
face,
brass;
shamelessness
etc.
adj.;
effrontery,
hardened front,
face of brass.
assumption of infallibility.
saucebox
etc.
(blusterer)
887†.
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Moby thesaurus: Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrariness, arbitrary, argumentum baculinum, aristocratic, arrogance, arrogant, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, authoritarian, authoritarianism, authoritative, authoritativeness, autocratic, autocraticalness, big, big stick, bossism, bossy, condescendence, condescending, condescension, despotic, despotism, dictatorial, domination, domineeringness, fascism, feudal, grinding, hard, harsh, haughtiness, haughty, haughty airs, hauteur, heavy hand, high and mighty, high hand, high horse, high-faluting, high-flown, high-handed, high-headed, high-nosed, hoity-toitiness, hoity-toity, imperative, imperativeness, imperial, imperious, imperiousness, insolent, iron boot, iron hand, iron heel, loftiness, lofty, lordliness, lordly, magisterial, magisterialness, magistral, magistrality, masterful, masterfulness, monocratic, officious, oppression, oppressive, overbearance, overbearing, overbearing pride, overbearingness, overruling, overweening pride, patronization, patronizing, patronizing attitude, peremptoriness, peremptory, pride, proud, proudness, purse-pride, purse-proud, pushy, reign of terror, repressive, severe, side, stiff-necked pride, strict, stuck-up, superbia, superior, suppressive, terrorism, thought control, toploftiness, toplofty, tough, tyrannical, tyrannicalness, tyrannous, tyranny, uppish, uppishness, uppity, uppityness, upstage ... show more.
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