Entry Word: bossy

Function: adjective

Meaning: fond of ordering people around <I don't want to work with him because he's so bossy and always runs roughshod over me>

Synonyms authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, imperious, masterful, overbearing, peremptory, tyrannical (also tyrannic), tyrannous

Related Words arrogant, disdainful, haughty, lofty, lordly, proud, supercilious, superior; commanding, dictating; arbitrary, high-handed, imperial; authoritative, directorial, magisterial; aggressive, assertive, self-assertive; conceited, narcissistic, pompous, vain; all-powerful, almighty, omnipotent; firm, stern

Near Antonyms humble, meek, modest, unassuming; amenable, docile, obedient, tractable; indecisive, irresolute; acquiescent, compliant, passive, resigned, submissive, yielding