Dictionary Definition
bossy adj : offensively self-assured or given to
exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person";
"autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a
rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees
in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"
[syn: autocratic,
dominating, high-and-mighty,
magisterial,
peremptory] [also:
bossiest, bossier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒsi
Adjective
- tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering
Synonyms
Translations
tending to give orders to others
- Czech: panovačný
Extensive Definition
Bossy may refer to:
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Brahman, Indian buffalo,
Partlet, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, aurochs, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, beef, beef cattle, beeves, biddy, bison, bitch, bold, bossed, bovine, bovine animal, brood
mare, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, chased, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy
cow, despotic, dictatorial, doe, dogie, domineering, embossed, ewe, ewe lamb, feudal, filly, grinding, guinea hen, gyp, heifer, hen, high-handed, hind, hornless cow, imperative, imperial, imperious, in relief, jenny, kine, leppy, lioness, lordly, magisterial, magistral, mare, masterful, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, monocratic, muley cow, muley
head, musk-ox, nanny,
nanny goat, neat, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, ox, oxen, peahen, peremptory, raised, repressive, roe, severe, she-bear, she-goat,
she-lion, slut, sow, steer, stirk, stot, strict, suppressive, tigress, tyrannical, tyrannous, vixen, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu