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List of meaning for overbearing

overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant

authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing(adj)

expecting unquestioning obedience

"the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"

disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering(adj)

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

coming before all others in importance

the overbearing problem in our nation's schools

fond of ordering people around

the doctor's overbearing attitude is resented by nurses and patients alike

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