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adjectivedomineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant. of overwhelming or critical importance. Origin of overbearingFirst recorded in 1590–1600; overbear + -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM overbearingo·ver·bear·ing·ly, adverbo·ver·bear·ing·ness, nounWords nearby overbearingoverattentive, overawe, overbalance, overbank, overbear, overbearing, overbid, overbite, overblouse, overblow, overblown Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for overbearingOverbearing regulations prevent people from doing their jobs. Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST Many former employees described Masters as a demanding, overbearing micromanager who had no boundaries. The Godfather of Right-Wing Radio|Caitlin Dickson|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST In April 1992, U.S. News and World Report, called her the “overbearing yuppie wife from hell.” The GOP's History of Sexist Hillary-Bashing|Sam Kleiner|December 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST Loud, overbearing, and unseemly, he is the very personification of the human id in a mock turtleneck and gold chain. ‘Ray Donovan’: Is the Liev Schreiber–Led Showtime Drama The Next ‘Sopranos’?|Jace Lacob|June 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
His father was near senility, his mother was overbearing, and the household was in financial straits. The Professor and the Doomsday Clock: ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ & Signs of John Kennedy Toole’s Suicide|Cory MacLauchlin|December 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST Overbearing to those he distrusted, irritable among shams, he was charity itself to real merit and to the poor. The Incendiary|W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy It was insolence—brutal, overbearing insolence, with physical menace behind it. The Croxley Master: A Great Tale Of The Prize Ring|Arthur Conan Doyle You are overbearing and insolent, while he is modest and good-natured. Grettir The Strong|Unknown For a while, the unwholesome idea filled me, with a sensation of overbearing desolation; so that I could have cried like a child. The House on the Borderland|William Hope Hodgson She was a handsome woman, but proud and overbearing, and could not endure that any one should surpass her in beauty. Snowdrop and Other Tales|Jacob Grimm
British Dictionary definitions for overbearing
adjectivedomineering or dictatorial in manner or action of particular or overriding importance or significance Derived forms of overbearingoverbearingly, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to overbearingdictatorial, oppressive, imperious, high-handed, cocky, autocratic, bossy, tyrannical, cavalier, despotic, disdainful, dogmatic, egotistic, haughty, imperative, imperial, insolent, magisterial, officious, overweening |