Overbearing
[əʊvə'beərɪŋ] or [,ovɚ'bɛrɪŋ]
Definition
(a.) Overpowering; subduing; repressing.
(a.) Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Overpowering, oppressive.[2]. Imperious, domineering, dictatorial, supercilious, lordly, haughty, arrogant.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Bullying, domineering,[See ARROGANCE]
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Examples
- His bullying, overbearing manner was all gone too, and he cringed along at my companion's side like a dog with its master. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I can see it leaking out in fifty different ways,--just the same strong, overbearing, dominant spirit. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- His face was very pleasant; he looked high but not arrogant, manly but not overbearing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mr Wrayburn, at least I know very well that it would be idle to set myself against you in insolent words or overbearing manners. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was clever, bad-tempered, and overbearing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was her overbearing WILL that insisted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- How those three proud, overbearing brothers humbled themselves before me! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I tell you what, Mr Venus; it comes to this; I must be overbearing with Boffin, or I shall fly into several pieces. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Woodrow