Snobbish vs Domineering - What's the difference?
snobbish | domineering | Related terms |
Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors.
The act of one who domineers.
* Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Snobbish is a related term of domineering.
As adjectives the difference between snobbish and domineering
is that snobbish is having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors while domineering is overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.As a verb domineering is
.As a noun domineering is
the act of one who domineers.snobbish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* cliquishdomineering
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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.