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bossy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of bossy

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 of bossy

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

Words Related to bossy

arrogant, assumptive, disdainful, fastuous, haughty, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-hat, huffy, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, self-asserting, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity

commanding, controlling, dictating, regimental

arbitrary, high-handed, imperial

directorial, magisterial

aggressive, assertive, self-assertive

conceited, narcissistic, pompous, vain

all-powerful, almighty, omnipotent

Near Antonyms of bossy

humble, meek, modest, unassuming

amenable, docile, obedient, tractable

indecisive, irresolute

acquiescent, compliant, passive, resigned, submissive, yielding

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