English

Detailed Synonyms for overbearing in English

overbearing:

overbearing adj

  1. overbearing
  2. overbearing
  3. overbearing
  4. overbearing
    – expecting unquestioning obedience 1
    authoritarian; overbearing; dictatorial
    – expecting unquestioning obedience 1
  5. overbearing
    – having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy 1
    haughty; overbearing; disdainful; imperious; supercilious; lordly; sniffy; swaggering; prideful
    – having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy 1
    • haughty adj
      • haughty aristocrats1
    • disdainful adj
      • some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines1
    • imperious adj
    • supercilious adj
      • his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air1
    • lordly adj
      • his lordly manners were offensive1
    • sniffy adj
      • very sniffy about breaches of etiquette1
    • swaggering adj
      • a more swaggering mood than usual1
    • prideful adj
      • walked with a prideful swagger1

Related Words for "overbearing":

  • overbearingly

Alternate Synonyms for "overbearing":


Related Definitions for "overbearing":

  1. expecting unquestioning obedience1
    • insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter1
  2. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy1