Domineering vs Obstinate - What's the difference?
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The act of one who domineers.
* Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
* 1686 , , "That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended",
Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.
* 1927 , ,
Domineering is a related term of obstinate.
As adjectives the difference between domineering and obstinate
is that domineering is overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian while obstinate is stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.As a verb domineering
is .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.
obstinate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish
- Now it happened that Kasturbai had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate .
