Crossword clues for domineering
domineering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Domineering \Dom`i*neer"ing\, a. Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.
A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate.
--Blackw.
Mag.
Syn: Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See Imperious. -- Dom`i*neer"ing*ly, adv.
Domineer \Dom`i*neer"\, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Domineered; p. pr. & vb. n. Domineering.] [F. dominer, L. dominari: cf. OD. domineren to feast luxuriously. See Dominate, v. t.] To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents.
Go to the feast, revel and domineer.
--Shak.
His wishes tend abroad to roam,
And hers to domineer at home.
--Prior.
Wiktionary
overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian n. The act of one who domineers. v
(present participle of domineer English)
WordNet
adj. tending to domineer [ant: submissive]
Wikipedia
Domineering (also called Stop-Gate or Crosscram) is a mathematical game played on a sheet of graph paper, with any set of designs traced out. For example, it can be played on a 6×6 square, a checkerboard, an entirely irregular polygon, or any combination thereof. Two players have a collection of dominoes which they place on the grid in turn, covering up squares. One player, Left, plays tiles vertically, while the other, Right, plays horizontally. As in most games in combinatorial game theory, the first player who cannot move loses.
Domineering is a partisan game, in that players use different pieces: the impartial version of the game is Cram.
Usage examples of "domineering".
Even harder was accepting that his harsh, domineering father had acted from genuine concern rather than casual cruelty.
There were just no words to adequately express my disgust with either overprotective, pigheaded, domineering man.
The domineering phonation that belonged to Earth vanished, cut off by suddenly achieved distances best described as absurd.
Chicago who escaped a domineering mother, discovered Pickax and Derek, the most popular bachelor in town.
They might be paternalistic, autocratic and domineering chauvinists, but she knew they truly cared about her.
The windows were large and domineering with intricate plasterwork giving a magisterial theme to the place.
I slumped down until the water filled my ears and I could no longer hear Rosil and Zofal debating whether in their experience women do or do not like men to be domineering.
She was the termagant, domineering Isabelle that he remembered, out to make him fall in with her wishes, to frighten him into doing her will.
The shores of the Straits of Sunda are unsupplied with those domineering fortresses which guard the entrances to the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Propontis.
Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major - de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.
And how quickly he regained his domineering manner once it was slaked, the falsehearted craven.
The partners in illicit profits strode up the house steps, Mayberry acting with the rough air of a domineering sheriff, Chalmody with the important style of some dignitary.
Snake women urged a withdrawal from Walpi, and, to incite the men to action, carried their mealing-stones and cooking vessels to the summit of the mesa, where they desired the men to build new houses, less accessible to the domineering priests.
I am compelled to report that the boy Agrippa Postumus is inclined to display a savage, domineering and intractable temper.
I remember Enid when she was young--very beautiful, and full of energy, but so domineering.