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Word | Overbearing |
expecting unquestioning obedience; he was imperious and dictatorial; the timid child of authoritarian parents; insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter / expecting unquestioning obedience / Overpowering / bossy; arrogant; decisively important / unpleasantly or arrogantly domineering. / often trying to control the behavior of other people in an annoying or unwanted way, | |
Usage | ⇒ Geeta is an overbearing woman ⇒ In choosing a husband, she said, "good birth is of overbearing importance; compared to that, neither wealth nor talent signifies". ⇒ He had to deal with his overbearing mother. ⇒ his overbearing, sometimes ruthless desire to succeed |
Synonyms | dictatorial, imperious, domineering, arrogant, haughty, authoritarian, despotic, autocratic, tyrannical, oppressive, supercilious, bossy, magisterial, proud, high-handed, arbitrary, insolent, overweening, peremptory, disdainful, |
Antonyms | humble, meek, insignificant, lowly, modest, submissive, unassuming, bashful, demure, diffident, docile, gentle, inconsequential, inconsiderable, mild, minor, negligible, obedient, obsequious, slight, |
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