Word.ws English Dictionary

bossish

bossish adjective: characteristic of a boss; bosslike.

Adjective

bossish (comparative more bossish, superlative most bossish)

  1. Characteristic of a boss; bosslike
    • God, this is really going to pollute my vacation. Why must he be so bossish?" "Because he's your boss, and he's adorable, that's why. Hey, what about Eric from last night? He definitely looks like client material."2007, Alexandra Koslow, Slacker Girl - Page 163
    • And when did bodies stop being processed through the usual channels? I sit through the interview trying to look interested, but it's Lissa who asks most of the questions. I hope I appear affable and bossish enough, and not that distracted.2011, Trent Jamieson, Managing Death

Forms of bossish

comparativemore bossish
superlativemost bossish

Origin of bossish

From boss + -ish.

Questions about bossish

What does bossish mean?
Bossish means characteristic of a boss; bosslike.
What part of speech is bossish?
Bossish is an adjective.

Words near bossish in the dictionary

  1. bossing around
  2. bossing up
  3. bossings
  4. Bossington
  5. Bossis
  6. bossish
  7. bossism
  8. bossisms
  9. Bossku
  10. bossladies
  11. bosslady

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bossish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bossish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bossish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.