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Magisterial vs Domineering - What's the difference?

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Magisterial is a synonym of domineering.


As adjectives the difference between magisterial and domineering

is that magisterial is befitting the status or skill of a magister or master; authoritative, masterly while domineering is overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.

As a verb domineering is

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As a noun domineering is

the act of one who domineers.

magisterial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Befitting the status or skill of a magister or master; authoritative, masterly.
  • Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 622:
  • *:Instead a ‘magisterial ’ Reformation was created: these were the Protestant movements led by the magistri , the theologically educated masters, and magistrates of all descriptions – kings, princes, city councils.
  • Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery.

    • 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.