Hypertext Webster Gateway: "overbearing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
overbearing
adj : expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and
dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian
parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the
waiter" [syn: {authoritarian}, {dictatorial}]
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