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"
disapproval If you describe someone as bossy, you mean that they enjoy telling people what to do. She remembers being a rather bossy little girl. + bossiness bossi·ness They resent what they see as bossiness