Overbearing

Word OVERBEARING
Character 11
Hyphenation o ver bear ing
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Overbearing"

What do we mean by overbearing?

Domineering in manner; arrogant: synonym: dictatorial. adjective

Overwhelming in power or significance; predominant. adjective

Bearing down; repressing; overwhelming.

Haughty and dictatorial; disposed or tending to repress or subdue in an imperious or insolent manner: as, an overbearing disposition or manner.

Synonyms Domineering, lordly, arrogant.

Overpowering; subduing; repressing. adjective

Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. adjective

Overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant. adjective

Expecting unquestioning obedience adjective

Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy adjective

To carry over.

To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome.

To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress.

To produce an overabundance of fruit.

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The word "overbearing" in example sentences

Perry, who caused a stir in 2009 when he openly pondered his state's secession from the United States, was sharply critical of what he called an overbearing federal government. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She was also known as the overbearing mother Ida Morgenstern on the 1970s comedy series Rhoda, Nancy Walker was an established stage performer for decades before making it in television. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, call her overbearing and annoying, her “Ghetto” origins or lack thereof dont appear to have any bearing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I've learned over the years to temper that emotion, that inclination to be what some people would call overbearing," Ferris said this week. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At a pre-trial hearing for Khadr last month, Hartmann was described as overbearing and tactless and alleged to have overstepped his role as legal adviser to become the "de facto chief prosecutor." ❋ Unknown (2008)

The fact is that if your parents root for a certain team and "encourage" their children to root for that team -- and that is either sentimentally awesome or the worst kind of overbearing -- chances are the kid is going to turn out to be a fan of that team. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He has also labeled the scene — where de Kooning, Rothko, or Barnett Newman, increasingly considered world-class masters, might rub shoulders at an exhibition opening with emerging Pop artists, Minimalists, or makers of happenings and earthworks — "overbearing," "brutally pragmatic," and "savagely competitive." ❋ Schwartz, Sanford (2009)

He was sort of arrogant and kind of overbearing, and he had his own problems and his own issues. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To support his argument, Wallis includes first-person accounts by the artists themselves, who reveal the kind of overbearing oversight that rendered their renderings unacceptable. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hillary may have been fighting the good fight — questions persist about the legitimacy of Hammerschmidt's win — but Addington says Hillary's "overbearing" approach was too "by the book" for a laid-back Arkansas political campaign: "In Arkansas, you don't go and challenge the legality of the county courthouse counting the vote." ❋ Unknown (2008)

HEAD TRAUMA: In a recent profile of Olbermann in the New Yorker, Peter Boyle recalls that he could be so "overbearing" that Suzy Kolber, a former colleague of his at ESPN, would sometimes "lock herself in the bathroom and cry." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Bush has maintained an "overbearing" approach to foreign policy that relied excessively on military power, spurned the concerns of U.S. traditional allies and disdained the United Nations, the group said. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A man is never described as "overbearing" ... he is simply powerful. ❋ Bethany9 (2003)

Explain to me why it's bad that the government has LESS coerced revenue to blow developing the kind of overbearing government that people like George Orwell and Terry Gilliam have warned us about. ❋ Kevynwight (2001)

A lawyer can stand up for his view of the law, but even though a judge tends to be kind of overbearing, a lawyer really is expected to more or less take it. ❋ Unknown (1992)

She stood there an instant eyeing the intruder with the kind of overbearing hauteur that in these days does duty as the peculiar hall-mark of the upper servant, being seldom encountered in England among even the older generation of the so-called governing class. ❋ Unknown (1907)

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