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Domineering vs Hectoring - What's the difference?

domineering | hectoring |

As verbs the difference between domineering and hectoring

is that domineering is while hectoring is .

As adjectives the difference between domineering and hectoring

is that domineering is overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian while hectoring is that hectors; intimidating or domineering.

As nouns the difference between domineering and hectoring

is that domineering is the act of one who domineers while hectoring is the act of one who hectors, or acts blusteringly.

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.

    hectoring

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That hectors; intimidating or domineering.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who hectors, or acts blusteringly.
  • * (Washington Irving)
    • their hectorings against an absent enemy, and their pusillanimity on his approach