Tyrannical vs Domineering - What's the difference?
tyrannical | domineering |
(not comparable) Of, or relating to tyranny or a tyrant.
(comparable) Despotic, oppressive or authoritarian.
The act of one who domineers.
* Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
As adjectives the difference between tyrannical and domineering
is that tyrannical is (not comparable) of, or relating to tyranny or a tyrant while domineering is overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.As a verb domineering is
.As a noun domineering is
the act of one who domineers.tyrannical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* See alsodomineering
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.