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Definition: Domineering |
DomineeringAdjective1. Tending to domineer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "domineering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: DomineeringSynonyms: imperious, magisterial. (additional references) |
| Antonym: submissive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insolence | Noun: insolence; haughtiness; Adjective: arrogance, airs; overbearance; domineering; Verb: tyranny. |
Adjective: insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown. | |
Severity | Arbitrary power; absolutism, despotism; dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny, domineering, oppression; assumption, usurpation; inquisition, reign of terror, martial law; iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway; tight grasp; brute force, brute strength; coercion; strong hand, tight hand. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Domineering |
| English words defined with "domineering": autocratically ♦ battle-ax, battle-axe, blustery, browbeat, bully, bullying ♦ cavalierly ♦ dictatorially, disdainfully, domineeringly ♦ heavy-handed, high-handedly ♦ magisterially, masterfully ♦ roughshod ♦ swagger ♦ virago. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "domineering": Ladder. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "domineering": Domineer. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Wow, You're so bossy and domineering (The Haunting; writing credit: David Self) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Domineering Male (1940) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | What then, can there no case happen wherein the people may of right, and by their own authority, help themselves, take arms, and set upon their king, imperiously domineering over them? None at all, whilst he remains a king. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Domineering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 58.54% of the time. "Domineering" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 58.54% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 36.59% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.88% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "domineering": man of a domineering spirit. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
domineering woman | 4 |
domineering mother | 4 |
domineering | 3 |
domineering wife | 2 |
domineering personality | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "domineering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i plotfuqishëm (all powerful, almighty, omnipotence, omnipotent, plenipotentiary), autoritar (authoritarian, authoritative, commanding, high handed, imperious, magisterial, masterful, overbearing, peremptory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مستبد (absolute, despot, despotic, dictatorial, highhanded, imperious, masterful, tyrannical), نزاع للاستبداد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | властен (authoritative, dictatorial, high handed, imperious, masterful, overmastering, peremptory, possessive, self-assertive), високомерен (airy, cavalier, grand, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, lordly, overweening, proud, snooty, snuffy, stiff necked, top-lofty), деспотичен (bossy, despotic, heavy-handed, masterful, peremptory, tyrannical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozkazovaèný (authoritative), pánovitý (bossy, bullying, hectoring, high handed, imperious, overbearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | dominoiva (dominant), topakka (gutsy, resolute), mahtaileva (high and mighty), määräilevä (definite article). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dominateur (dominating), autoritaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tyrannisch (bullying, oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannicly, tyrannous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τυραννικόσ (compulsive, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous), δικτατορικόσ (dictatorial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שתלט י (bossy, dominant, high and mighty, imperious, masterful, overbearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | uralkodó (dominant, governing, hegemonic, imp, majesty, monarch, pervading, potentate, predominant, preponderant, prepotent, presence, prevailing, prevalent, queen consort, rampant, regnant, ruler, ruling, sceptered, sceptred, sovereign), parancsoló (assertiveness, authoritative, compelling, dictatorial, imperatival, imperative, imperatorial, imperious, magisterial), hatalmaskodó (bossy, masterful, overbearing), fennhéjázó (bumptious, cavalier, consequential, haughty, high-blown, lofty, overweening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dispotico (arbitrary, despotic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 高飛車 (high-handed, on one's high horse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たかびしゃ (high-handed, on one's high horse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mainshtyragh (bossy, master). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omineeringday dominandor (dominant), tirânico (arbitrary, bully, oppressive, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous), autoritário (authoritarian, bossy, commanding, dictatorial, dog-cheap, emphatic, magisterial, masterful, overbearing, peremptory, self-assertive). (various references) despotic (arbitrarily, arbitrary, despotic, despotically, oppressive, oppressively), tiranic (cruel, despotic, despotically, heavy-handed, oppressive, severe, tyrannical, tyrannous). (various references) властный (autocratic, autocratical, bossy, dictatorial, high handed, high-handed, imperious, masterful, overbearing). (various references) zapovednički (bossy, commanding, imperious, magisterial, masterful, overbearing, possessive), nadmen (disdainful, haughty, high-blown, high-flown). (various references) dominador, mandón (bossy, managing). (various references) dominerande (ascendant, bossy, dominant, dominating, masterful, overbearing, paramount, predominant, predominantly), despotisk (authoritarian, despotic), tyrannisk (tyrannical, tyrannous). (various references) ครอบงำ (domineer, dwell in, reach). (various references) dediğim dedik (headstrong, self-opinionated, set, stubborn), zorbalık eden, otoriter (authoritarian, authoritative, bossy, imperious, strict), hükmeden (commanding, determinant, dominant, governing, masterful, regnant, suzerain), baskı yapan (repressive). (various references) зарозумілий (arrogant, audacious, contemptuous, dogmatic, dogmatical, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, lordly, overbearing, overly, overweening, proud, self-conceited, self-explanatory, self-important, snooty, stately, stiff necked, stuck up, topping, upstage), панівний (ascendant, commanding, dominant, predominant, reigning, ruling), деспотичний (arbitrary, autocratic, autocratical, despotic, despotical, imperious, oppressive, satrapic, satrapical, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous). (various references) hống hách áp bức, h hiếp, bạo ngược (tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous), độc đoán, áp chế (heavy-handed, repressive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | superbiens. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "domineering": domineeringly, domineeringness, domineeringnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Domineering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: joinering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "domineering" (pronounced dÄ'muni"ring) |
| 6 | -u n i" r i ng | bioengineering, electioneering, engineering, pioneering, reengineering. |
| 5 | -n i" r i ng | nearing, sneering. |
| 4 | -i" r i ng | adhering, appearing, cheering, clearing, disappearing, earring, fearing, gearing, hearing, interfering, overhearing, premiering, profiteering, racketeering, rearing, rehearing, searing, shearing, smearing, Spearing, steering, veering, volunteering. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, admiring, adoring, airing, alluring, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, childbearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, during, endearing, enduring, ensuring, expiring, exploring, firing, flaring, flooring, glaring, Goring, haring, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, insuring, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, poring, pouring, preparing, procuring, quiring, reassuring, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, securing, sharing, shoring, snaring, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, squaring, staring, starring, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-i-m-n-n-o-r" | |
-2 letters: remending, reminding. | |
-3 letters: domineer, emending, indigene, minoring, mongered, nidering, nonrigid. | |
-4 letters: deeming, demoing, dingier, dominie, dreeing, droning, emeroid, endogen, energid, engined, ermined, eroding, ginnier, grinned, groined, ignored, indigen, ironing, mendigo, mending, midiron, minding, mingier, minored, moderne, morning, needing, negroid, negroni, nominee, omening, redoing, reeding, regimen, reigned, reining, rending. | |
-5 letters: degerm, denier, dieing, dinero, dinger. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-i-i-m-n-n-o-r" | |
+2 letters: domineeringly. | |
+4 letters: domineeringness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 6D 69 6E 65 65 72 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- -- .. -. . . .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o m i n e e r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 006D 0069 006E 0065 0065 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3881797580717184758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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