Disdainful vs Domineering - What's the difference?
disdainful | domineering | Related terms |
Showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy.
The act of one who domineers.
* Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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
.As a noun domineering is
the act of one who domineers.disdainful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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, contemptuousAntonyms
* respectfulDerived terms
* disdainfullydomineering
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.