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Stately vs Domineering - What's the difference?

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Stately is a related term of domineering.


As adjectives the difference between stately and domineering

is that stately is of people: regal, dignified; worthy of respect while domineering is overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.

As an adverb stately

is in a stately manner.

As a verb domineering is

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As a noun domineering is

the act of one who domineers.

stately

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Of people: regal, dignified; worthy of respect.
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
    • Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
  • Of movement: dignified; deliberate, unhurried.
  • * 2010 , "An own goal on gay rights", The Economist , 14 Oct 2010:
    • And much as they welcome his promise to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell”, they are dismayed by the stately pace and bungled tactics of his attempts to do so.
  • Imposing; grand, impressive.

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a stately manner.

    • 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.