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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OVERBEARING, ppr.
1. Bearing down; repressing.
2. a. Haughty and dogmatical; disposed or tending to repress or subdue by insolence or effrontery.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1614 1. a. tending to overwhelm ; overpowering b. decisively important ; dominant 2. harshly and haughtily arrogant Synonyms: see proud • overbearingly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Overbearing O`ver*bear"ing, a. 1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. --I. Watts. 2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. --O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

An overbearing person tries to make other people do what he or she wants in an unpleasant and forceful way. My husband can be quite overbearing with our son. = domineering ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Overpowering, oppressive, repressing. 2. Imperious, domineering, dictatorial, supercilious, lordly, haughty, arrogant, dogmatical.

Moby Thesaurus

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