OVERBEARING


Meaning of OVERBEARING in English

adjective

1.

Synonyms: masterful 1, bossy, domineering, high-handed, imperative, imperial, imperious, magisterial, peremptory

2.

Synonyms: dominant 1, ascendant, master, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant, prevalent, regnant, sovereign

3.

Synonyms: proud 1, arrogant, cavalier, disdainful, haughty, high-and-mighty, insolent, lordly, supercilious, superior

Related Word: absolute, autocratic, despotic, tyrannical

Contrasted words: passive, unassertive; acquiescent, compliant, unresisting

Antonyms: subservient

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