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overbearingadjective coming before all others in importancethe overbearing problem in our nation's schools arch, big, capital, cardinal, central, chief, dominant, first, foremost, grand, great, greatest, highest, key, leading, main, master, number one(also No. 1), numero uno, overmastering, overriding, paramount, predominant, preeminent, premier, primal, primary, principal, prior, sovereign(also sovran), supreme distinguished, eminent, illustrious, noble, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, prestigious, signal, star, stellar, superiorhigh-level, senior, topimportant, influential, major, mighty, momentous, significantincomparable, matchless, unequaled(or unequalled), unparalleled, unsurpassedcelebrated, famed, famous, renowned last, least inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, minor, negligible, slight, trifling, trivial, unimportantcollateral, inferior, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary fond of ordering people aroundthe doctor's overbearing attitude is resented by nurses and patients alike authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic(also autocratical), bossy, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, imperious, masterful, peremptory, tyrannical(also tyrannic), tyrannous arrogant, assumptive, disdainful, fastuous, haughty, highfalutin(also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-hat, huffy, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, self-asserting, supercilious, superior, toplofty(also toploftical), uppish, uppitycommanding, controlling, dictating, regimentalarbitrary, high-handed, imperialdirectorial, magisterialaggressive, assertive, self-assertiveimperativeconceited, narcissistic, pompous, vainall-powerful, almighty, omnipotentfirm, stern humble, meek, modest, unassumingamenable, docile, obedient, tractableindecisive, irresoluteacquiescent, compliant, passive, resigned, submissive, yielding to achieve a victory overthat year the football team simply overbore opponent after opponent with steamroller ruthlessness beating, besting, conquering, defeating, dispatching, doing down(British), getting, getting around, licking, mastering, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), skunking, stopping, subduing, surmounting, taking, trimming, triumphing (over), upending, winning (against), worsting sweepingedging (out), nosing out, pipping(British)annihilating, blowing away, blowing out, bombing, breaking, burying, clobbering, creaming, crushing, drubbing, finishing, flattening, overwhelming, routing, shellacking, skinning, slaughtering, smoking(slang), snowing under, thrashing, trouncing, upsetting, walloping, waxing(slang), whippingcapping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeedingknocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, subjugating, unseating, vanquishingacing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, excelling, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending getting the better of, knocking for a loop losing (to) falling, giving up, going down, going undercollapsing, failing, flopping, flunking, folding, washing out adj.proud, arrogant, haughty, lordly, insolent, overbearing, supercilious, disdainful mean showing scorn for inferiors.proud may suggest an assumed superiority or loftiness.too proud to take charity arrogant implies a claiming for oneself of more consideration or importance than is warranted.a conceited and arrogant executive haughty suggests a consciousness of superior birth or position.a haughty aristocrat lordly implies pomposity or an arrogant display of power.a lordly condescension insolent implies contemptuous haughtiness.ignored by an insolent waiter overbearing suggests a tyrannical manner or an intolerable insolence.an overbearing supervisor supercilious implies a cool, patronizing haughtiness.an aloof and supercilious manner disdainful suggests a more active and openly scornful superciliousness.disdainful of their social inferiors in 1614 |