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domineering
Synonyms and Antonyms of domineering
- The younger children in the family were controlled by a domineering older sister.
authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic (also autocratical), bossy, despotic, dictatorial, imperious, masterful, overbearing, peremptory, tyrannical (also tyrannic), tyrannous
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
aggressive, assertive, self-assertive
conceited, narcissistic, pompous, vain
Synonym Discussion of domineering
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- her masterful personality soon dominated the movement
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- children controlled by domineering parents
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- an imperious executive used to getting his own way
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- given a peremptory dismissal
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- an imperative appeal for assistance
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