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Assuming vs Domineering - What's the difference?

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Assuming is a related term of domineering.


As verbs the difference between assuming and domineering

is that assuming is while domineering is .

As an adjective domineering is

overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.

As a noun domineering is

the act of one who domineers.

assuming

English

Verb

(head)

    • domineering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian

    • Synonyms

    * bossy, assertive, dominant, forceful, commanding, pushy, strong-willed, arbitrary, oppressive, regnant * See also

    Antonyms

    * submissive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who domineers.
  • * Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.