Meaning & Definition of Overbearing in English
English⟶
Overbearing
/oʊvərbɛrɪŋ/
adjective
1. Expecting unquestioning obedience
- "The timid child of authoritarian parents"
- "Insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
synonym:
- authoritarian,
- dictatorial,
- overbearing
2. 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
synonym:
- disdainful,
- haughty,
- imperious,
- lordly,
- overbearing,
- prideful,
- sniffy,
- supercilious,
- swaggering