different between dominative vs domineering

English

Etymology

dominate +? -ive

Adjective

dominative (comparative more dominative, superlative most dominative)

1. Exhibiting or pertaining to domination.
   • 1969, Lois N. Nelson, The nature of teaching: a collection of readings

     A sustained dominative pattern was consistently disliked by pupils, reduced their ability to recall, later on, the material studied, and produced disruptive anxiety as indicated by galvanic skin response and changes in the heartbeat rates.

Anagrams

• admonitive

English

Verb

domineering

1. present participle of domineer

Adjective

domineering (comparative more domineering, superlative most domineering)

1. overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian

Synonyms

• bossy, assertive, dominant, forceful, commanding, pushy, strong-willed, arbitrary, oppressive, regnant
• See also Thesaurus:bossy

Antonyms

• submissive

Translations

Noun

domineering (plural domineerings)

1. The act of one who domineers.

   • 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.