overbearing English

Meaning overbearing meaning

What does overbearing mean?

overbearing

— adjective (= authoritarian) expecting unquestioning obedience the timid child of authoritarian parents insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter

— adjective (= disdainful, haughty, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering) 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

Synonyms overbearing synonyms

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overbearing English » English

arrogant

haughty

domineering

imperious

bossy

proud

insolent

high-handed

lordly

disdainful

pushy

prideful

magisterial

conceited

coercive

authoritarian

wicked

unreasonable

swaggering

supercilious

sniffy

self-important

scornful

presumptuous

overweening

dictatorial

violent person

vice

vainglorious

uppish

unstable wrestling stance

termagant

supercillious

stuck-up

shout

selfish

self assertive

ruling

roughshod

pukka sahib

puffed up

priggish

pretentious

presuming

perverse

peremptory

ostentatious

oppressive

officious

mean