Overbearing \O`ver*bear"ing\, a.
1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. --I. Watts.
[1913 Webster]
2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical;
dictatorial; insolent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
overbearing
adj : expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and
dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian
parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the
waiter" [syn: authoritarian, dictatorial]
WordNet (r) 2.0
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "overbearing":
absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic,
arrogant, ascendant, assertive, authoritarian, authoritative,
autocratic, big, bossy, bullying, cavalier, condescending,
despotic, dictatorial, disdainful, dogmatic, domineering, feudal,
grinding, haughty, high and mighty, high-and-mighty, high-faluting,
high-flown, high-handed, high-headed, high-nosed, highfalutin,
hoity-toity, imperative, imperial, imperious, insolent, lofty,
lordly, magisterial, magistral, master, masterful, monocratic,
officious, oppressive, overruling, overweening, paramount,
patronizing, peremptory, predominant, predominate, preponderant,
pretentious, prevalent, proud, purse-proud, pushy, regnant,
repressive, severe, snooty, snotty, sovereign, strict, stuck-up,
supercilious, superior, suppressive, toplofty, tyrannical,
tyrannous, uppish, uppity, upstage
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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