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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. expecting unquestioning obedience;
- Example: "the timid child of authoritarian parents"
- Example: "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
[syn: authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing]

2. 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"
- Example: "haughty aristocrats"
- Example: "his lordly manners were offensive"
- Example: "walked with a prideful swagger"
- Example: "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"
- Example: "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"
- Example: "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
[syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

overbearing
    adj 1: expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of
           authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing
           behavior toward the waiter" [syn: 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 [syn:
       disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly,
       overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious,
       swaggering]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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