Synonyms: domineering
Definition: tending to domineer
Similar words: dictatorial, authoritarian, overbearing
Definition: expecting unquestioning obedience
Usage: the timid child of authoritarian parents; insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter
Similar words: peremptory, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, bossy, autocratic
Definition: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
Usage: an autocratic person; autocratic behavior; a bossy way of ordering others around; a rather aggressive and dominating character; managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way; a swaggering peremptory manner
Similar words: blustery, bullying
Definition: noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others
Similar words: cavalier, high-handed
Definition: given to haughty disregard of others
Similar words: heavy-handed, roughshod
Definition: unjustly domineering
Usage: incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies; a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
Similar words: tyrannical, tyrannous, oppressive
Definition: marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
Usage: the oppressive government; oppressive laws; a tyrannical parent; tyrannous disregard of human rights