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Domineering vs Overprotective - What's the difference?

domineering | overprotective |

As adjectives the difference between domineering and overprotective

is that domineering is overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian while overprotective is excessively protective, wanting to give too much protection (especially to children).

As a verb domineering

is .

As a noun domineering

is the act of one who domineers.

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.

    overprotective

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • excessively protective, wanting to give too much protection (especially to children)

    • Antonyms

    *underprotective