Overbearing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Domineering in manner; arrogant: an overbearing person. See Synonyms at dictatorial.
  • adj. Overwhelming in power or significance; predominant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Overpowering; subduing; repressing.
  • adj. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Bearing down; repressing; overwhelming.
  • Haughty and dictatorial; disposed or tending to repress or subdue in an imperious or insolent manner: as, an overbearing disposition or manner.
  • Synonyms Domineering, lordly, arrogant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. expecting unquestioning obedience
  • adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
  • Equivalent
    domineering    proud   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Verb Stem
    overbear   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baring    Behring    Bering    airing    baring