Words and phrases that have a meaning related to domineering: (158 results)
Antonyms:
submissive
Often used in the same context:
overbearing, bossy, shrewish, tyrannical, imperious, headstrong, manipulative, submissive, truculent, brutish, dictatorial, doting, egotistical, unloving, pushy, overprotective, subservient, chauvinistic, haughty, irascible, acquiescent, unwomanly, arrogant, vengeful, priggish, resentful, possessive, henpecked, brusk, cuckolded, slatternly, unaffectionate, cantankerous, harpy, flighty, uxorious, obstinate, loutish, egocentric, boorish, petulant, oedipal complex, neurasthenic, incommunicative, meek, neurotic, patriarchal, caddish, avaricious, unassertive, straitlaced, amoral, doltish, mousy, ruthless, unlikable, rivalrous, snappish, meddlesome, dutiful, pompous, spinsterish, antagonistic, overweening, uptight, impetuous, temperamental, venal, autocratic, obsequious, sullen, rageful, brattish, oppressive, highborn, snooty, rebellious, blowsy, authoritarian, implacable, eccentric, taciturn, straightlaced, unsympathetic, indomitable, insolent, untrusting, timorous, epicene, gruff, snobbish, duplicitous, despotic, jealous, hypochondriacal, tempestuous, quarrelsome, lecherous, inexpressive, megalomaniac, oafish, villainous, avarice, arrogance, insolence, plundering, vindictiveness, affronts, barbarity, boasting, chicanery, chivalry, contention, disdain, exultation, gallantry, haughtiness, ingratitude, inquisitions, minions, petulance, pleas, reticent, effacing, assertive, easygoing, reclusive, extroverted, combative, pugnacious, undemonstrative
Appears in the definition of:
autocratically, battle-ax, battle-axe, blustery, browbeat, bully, bullying, cavalierly, dictatorially, disdainfully, domineeringly, heavy-handed, high-handedly, magisterially, masterfully, roughshod, swagger, virago
Synonyms:
Also try:cavalier, dominating, high-and-mighty, high-handed, magisterial, masterful, peremptory, tyrannous
— Nouns for domineering: mother, father, spirit, attitude, woman, personality, wife, manner, man, ways, influence, more...
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