overbearing meaning and definition

OVERBEARING adjective

Definition of overbearing (adjective)

1. expecting unquestioning obedience
   • "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
   • synonyms: authoritarian, dictatorial
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
   • synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering