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}] bossiest See {bossy}