overbearing

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adjective

1. expecting unquestioning obedience (Freq. 2)
- the timid child of authoritarian parents
- insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter
• Syn:
authoritarian, dictatorial
• Similar to:
domineering
• Derivationally related forms:
overbearingness
2. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
- some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
- haughty aristocrats
- his lordly manners were offensive
- walked with a prideful swagger
- very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
- his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
- "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
• Syn:
disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful,
sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
• Similar to:
proud
• Derivationally related forms:
superciliousness (for: supercilious), overbearingness, lordliness (for: lordly), imperiousness (for: imperious), haughtiness (for: haughty), disdainfulness (for: disdainful)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering, authoritarian, dictatorial