overbearing

[o·ver·bear·ing]

Overbearing means domineering. You might find it difficult to play the piano as your overbearing instructor criticizes every key you touch.

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Overpowering; subduing; repressing.

Adjective S.
expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"


a.
Overpowering; subduing; repressing.

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


Overbearing

O`ver*bear"ing, a. 1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts. 2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. --O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.

Overpowering; subduing; repressing.

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Usage Examples

Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.

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Other Usage Examples

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

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