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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

overbearing or controlling;

e.g. My domineering parents wanted to know where I was at every single second of the day.

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Similar Words

Anti-republican

Antidemocratic

Authoritarian

Authoritative

Autocratic

Bossy

Condescending

Controlling

Despotic

Dictatorial

Imperious

Inequitable

Jackbooted

Masterful

Overbearing

Peremptory

Regimental

Self-flattering

Than

Totalitarian

Trigger-happy

Tyrannical

Tyrannous

Unapologetic

Unjust

Unsubdued

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Opposite Words

Acquiescent

Amenable

Compliant

Demure

Docile

Down-to-earth

Humble

Indecisive

Irresolute

Lowly

Meek

Modest

Obedient

Passive

Resigned

Self-deprecating

Self-deprecatory

Submissive

Tractable

Unarrogant

Unassertive

Unassuming

Unpretentious

Yielding

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Related Words

Absolute

Aggressive

All-powerful

Almighty

Ambitious

Arbitrary

Arrogant

Assertive

Assumptive

Assured

Autocratic

Biggety

Bold

Bumptious

Cavalier

Chesty

Commanding

Complacent

Conceited

Consequential

Controlling

Despotic

Dictatorial

Directorial

Disdainful

Egotistical

Enterprising

Familiar

Fastuous

Fierce

Firm

Forward

Free

Haughty

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

High-pressure

Highfalutin

Huffy

Imperative

Imperial

Imperious

Important

In-your-face

Jealous

Lofty

Lordly

Magisterial

Masterful

Militant

Narcissistic

Omnipotent

Overfamiliar

Overweening

Peremptory

Pompous

Possessive

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Prideful

Proud

Pushy

Regimental

Ruling

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-important

Self-satisfied

Smug

Sniffy

Stern

Stiff-necked

Stuck-up

Supercilious

Superior

Toplofty

Tyrannical

Tyrannous

Uppity

Vain

Vainglorious

Willful

Your

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