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Disdainful vs Domineering - What's the difference?

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Disdainful is a related term of domineering.


As adjectives the difference between disdainful and domineering

is that disdainful is showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy while domineering is overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.

As a verb domineering is

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As a noun domineering is

the act of one who domineers.

disdainful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy.
  • He was disdainful of those he thought of as the little people. He openly sneered at them. They mocked him behind his back.
    She glimpsed at the people whom she had left behind, and smirked in the most disdainful manner towards them.

    Synonyms

    * despising, scornful, contemptuous

    Antonyms

    * respectful

    Derived terms

    * disdainfully

    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.