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. adjective. Overpowering; subduing; repressing.
2. adjective. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent.
3. adjective. expecting unquestioning obedience

   "the timid child of authoritarian parents"

   "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"

   Synonyms: authoritarian, dictatorial

4. adjective. 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: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering

Synonyms

authoritarian, dictatorial, disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering

Common word forms

overbear, overbearingly, overbearingness

Words from these letters

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