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Meaning of 'overbearing' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Overbearing [ a.]
- Overpowering; subduing; repressing.
- Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent.

Meaning of 'overbearing' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . overbearing [ s]
Meaning (1):
- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
Example in sentence:
  • a more swaggering mood than usual;
  • haughty aristocrats;
  • his lordly manners were offensive;
  • his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air;
  • some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines;
  • very sniffy about breaches of etiquette;
  • walked with a prideful swagger
Meaning (2):
- expecting unquestioning obedience
Example in sentence:
  • insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter;
  • the timid child of authoritarian parents

Nearby Words:

oven ovenbird over over-arm over-busy over-garment over-story overabound overact overaction

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