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adjective
Exercising controlling power or influence
Synonyms: commanding, dominant, magisterial, controlling, domineering, dominative, governing, bossy, paramount, preponderant, imperious, regnant, autocratic, reigning, ruling, high-and-mighty, peremptory, overlooking
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verb
Look down on
Synonyms: overlooking, overtopping, commanding
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verb
Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
Synonyms: ruling, reigning, prevailing, predominating, preponderating
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verb
Have dominance or the power to defeat over
Synonyms: ruling, governing, overshadowing, managing, eclipsing, browbeating, directing, domineering, swaying, mastering, surmounting, subjecting, reigning, controlling, bossing, overtopping, overlooking, predominating, monopolizing, bullying, intimidating, tyrannizing, subjugating, dictating
Antonyms: following, submitting, surrendering, yielding
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verb
To command or issue commands in an arrogant manner
Synonyms: tyrannizing, ruling, ordering, domineering, dictating, bossing
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adjective
Most powerful or important or influential
Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent