Bossy vs. Controlling

Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.

Ornamented with bosses; studded.

A cow or calf.

Ornamented with bosses; studded.

A cow or calf; - familiarly so called.

offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power;

Example: ‘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’;

Exerting control over a person or thing.

Example: ‘His mother is very controlling.’;

present participle of control

The act of exerting control.

able to control or determine policy;

Example: ‘a controlling interest in the firm’;