Overbearing

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overbearing \O`ver*bear"ing\, a.
     1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. --I. Watts.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical;
        dictatorial; insolent.


        [1913 Webster] --{O`ver*bear"ing*ly}, adv. --
        {O`ver*bear"ing*ness}, n.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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