HECTORING

Meaning of HECTORING in English

➡ hector

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

HECTORING — (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hector
Английский словарь Webster
HECTORING — ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Hector
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
HECTORING — p.pr. & ·vb.n. of hector.
Webster English vocab
HECTORING — see hector
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HECTORING — see hector
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
HECTORING — [adjective] [disapproving]He did not take kindly to the hectoring moral tone of the speaker.He had a loud, hectoring manner.She was …
Cambridge English vocab
HECTORING — Грубиян
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
WORRY — I. ˈwər.]ē, ˈwə.r], ]i\ verb ( -ed/-ing/-es ) Etymology: Middle English wirien, werien, worien to strangle, worry with the teeth, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HECTOR — I. ˈhektə(r) noun ( -s ) Etymology: after Hector, a Trojan warrior in Homer's Iliad, from Latin, from Greek Hektōr …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BULLY
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HECTORINGLY — adverb : in a hectoring manner
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FIRE-EATING — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective : violent, aggressive, belligerent, or highly militant in disposition, bearing, or policy a fire-eating radical the fire-eating partisans …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SWASHING — (a.) Swaggering; hectoring.
Английский словарь Webster
SWASHING — ( a. ) Swaggering; hectoring.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SWASHING — adj resounding; crushing. 2. swashing ·adj swaggering; hectoring. 3. swashing ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of swash.
Webster English vocab
HARANGUE — [ hə'raŋ ] ■ verb lecture (someone) at length in an aggressive and hectoring manner. ■ noun a forceful and …
Concise Oxford English vocab
HECTOR — hector, H~ BrE AmE ˈhekt ə AmE - ə r ▷ hector|ed d ▷ hectoring ˈhekt ə r ɪŋ ▷ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
HECTOR — / ˈhektə(r); NAmE / verb [ vn , v speech ] ( formal ) to try to make sb do …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HECTOR — hec ‧ tor /ˈhektə $ -ər/ BrE AmE verb [intransitive and transitive] [ Date: 1600-1700 ; Origin: Hector a brave …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HECTOR — ( hectors, hectoring, hectored) If you say that someone is hectoring you, you do not like the way they are …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TONE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES conciliatory approach/tone/gesture etc ▪ Perhaps you should adopt a more conciliatory approach. dial tone …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SPITEFUL — adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a spiteful liar ▪ Failure had made him bitter and spiteful . ▪ I …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SELF-RIGHTEOUS — adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Bike riders seems to have this self-righteous attitude toward people in cars. ▪ His …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HECTOR — verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Brooks had hectored employees who refused to work overtime. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Alain …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DISAPPROVING — adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Her disapproving parents refused to attend her wedding. ▪ John gave me a disapproving …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
TUMULTUOUS — Synonyms and related words : agitated, anarchic, angry, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, bullying, chaotic, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
THREATENING — Synonyms and related words : about to be, abusive, alarming, already in sight, apocalyptic, approaching, at hand, bad, baleful, baneful, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
TERRORIZING — Synonyms and related words : abusive, bludgeoning, blustering, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, comminatory, denunciatory, fear-inspiring, foreboding, hectoring, imminent, intimidating, lowering, menacing, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
TERRORISTIC — Synonyms and related words : Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Carbonarist, Castroist, Castroite, Communist, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobinic, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BULLYING — I . a. Blustering, swaggering, vaporing, vaunting, hectoring, bluff, gruff, bearish. II . n. Bluster, swagger, fanfaronade, gasconade, vaporing, hectoring, …
Dictionary of English Synonyms

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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