Domineering vs Latecomer - What's the difference?
domineering | latecomer |
The act of one who domineers.
* Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
One who has arrived comparatively recently.
:The old families in the neighborhood look down on him as a latecomer , his family only arrived in the 18th century, too nouveau for them.
One who arrived late.
:At the party the host made a point of greeting all the latecomers he missed in the first pass.
As nouns the difference between domineering and latecomer
is that domineering is the act of one who domineers while latecomer is one who has arrived comparatively recently.As a verb domineering
is .As an adjective domineering
is overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.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.