What is "overbearing" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does overbearing mean in English? Meaning of overbearing definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "overbearing" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "overbearing": expecting unquestioning obedience

Adjective

  • Meaning: expecting unquestioning obedience
  • Example: the timid child of authoritarian parents insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter
  • Synonyms: authoritarian dictatorial overbearing
  • Similar: domineering
  • Meaning of "overbearing": having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

    Adjective

  • Meaning: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
  • Example: 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
  • Synonyms: disdainful haughty imperious lordly overbearing prideful sniffy supercilious swaggering
  • Similar: proud
  • Adjective: Overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant.
  • Synonyms:

    dictatorial, oppressive, imperious, high-handed, cocky, autocratic, bossy, tyrannical, cavalier, despotic, disdainful, dogmatic, egotistic, haughty, imperative, imperial, insolent, magisterial, officious, overweening, paramount, peremptory, predominant, preponderant, prevalent, proud, regnant, snotty, sovereign, stuffy, supercilious, superior, uppity, ascendant, high-and-mighty, sniffy,

    Antonyms:

    democratic, kind, humble, modest, nice, unassertive,

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    overbearing in English: overbearing
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