overbearing

From overbear (“to bear down (on)”) +‎ -ing.

overbearing

1. present participle and gerund of overbear

overbearing (comparative more overbearing, superlative most overbearing)

1. Overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant.

• demanding, dictatorial, dominant, haughty, high-handed
• See also Thesaurus:bossy
• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

• overbearingly
• overbearingness

• “overbearing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “overbearing”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “overbearing”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.