'overbearing' definitions:
Definition of 'overbearing'
From: WordNet
adjective
Expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter" [syn: authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing]
adjective
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
Synonyms of 'overbearing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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