Demanding vs Domineering - What's the difference?
demanding | domineering |
The act of one who domineers.
* Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
As adjectives the difference between demanding and domineering
is that demanding is requiring much endurance, strength, or patience while domineering is overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.As verbs the difference between demanding and domineering
is that demanding is present participle of lang=en while domineering is present participle of lang=en.As a noun domineering is
the act of one who domineers.domineering
English
Verb
(head)Synonyms
* bossy, assertive, dominant, forceful, commanding, pushy, strong-willed, arbitrary, oppressive, regnant * See alsoAntonyms
* submissiveNoun
(en noun)- 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.