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overbearing

overbearing is a 11-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Overpowering; subduing; repressing. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 21 · 4 senses

Definitions

  1. 1adjective

    Overpowering; subduing; repressing.

  2. 2adjective

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

  3. 3adjective

    expecting unquestioning obedience

    "the timid child of authoritarian parents"

    "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"

    Synonyms

    authoritariandictatorial
  4. 4adjective

    having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy- W.L.Shirer

    "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"

    "haughty aristocrats"

    Synonyms

    disdainfulhaughtyimperiouslordlypridefulsniffysuperciliousswaggering

Synonyms

authoritariandictatorialdisdainfulhaughtyimperiouslordlypridefulsniffysuperciliousswaggering

Common word forms

overbearoverbearinglyoverbearingness

Words from these letters

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