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Overly bossy, domineering, arrogant, forceful, intense, or annoying.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
present participle and gerund of overbear
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 3
expecting unquestioning obedience
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the timid child of authoritarian parents
- insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: authoritarian, dictatorial
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy- W.L.Shirer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
Antonyms: none provided
From overbear (“to bear down (on)”) + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
مُتَسَلِّط
(mutasalliṭ)
— overly bossy or domineering
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Armenian:
հրամայական
(hramayakan)
— overly bossy or domineering
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Armenian:
բռնապետական
(bṙnapetakan)
— overly bossy or domineering
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Bulgarian:
властен
(vlasten)
— overly bossy or domineering
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Bulgarian:
повелителен
(povelitelen)
— overly bossy or domineering
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Chinese Mandarin:
蠻橫 /蛮横
(mánhèng)
— overly bossy or domineering
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Chinese Mandarin:
霸道
(bàdào)
— overly bossy or domineering
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Chinese Mandarin:
盛氣凌人的
(shèngqìlíngrén de)
— overly bossy or domineering
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Finnish:
määräilevä
— overly bossy or domineering
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Finnish:
komenteleva
— overly bossy or domineering
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French:
dominateur
— overly bossy or domineering
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French:
despotique
— overly bossy or domineering
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German:
anmaßend
— overly bossy or domineering
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German:
herrisch
— overly bossy or domineering
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German:
überheblich
— overly bossy or domineering
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Hebrew:
דומיננטי
— overly bossy or domineering
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Hebrew:
שתלטן
— overly bossy or domineering
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Hungarian:
erőszakos
— overly bossy or domineering
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Hungarian:
arrogáns
— overly bossy or domineering
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Hungarian:
basáskodó
— overly bossy or domineering
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Hungarian:
hatalmaskodó
— overly bossy or domineering
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Hungarian:
zsarnokoskodó
— overly bossy or domineering
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Hungarian:
pöffeszkedő
— overly bossy or domineering
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Hungarian:
fennhéjázó
— overly bossy or domineering
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Interlingua:
imperiose
— overly bossy or domineering
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Irish:
anúdarásach
— overly bossy or domineering
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Irish:
forbhríoch
— overly bossy or domineering
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Irish:
iomarcach
— overly bossy or domineering
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Irish:
stróinéiseach
— overly bossy or domineering
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Irish:
tiarnúil
— overly bossy or domineering
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Latin:
imperiōsus
— overly bossy or domineering
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Māori:
tuanui
— overly bossy or domineering
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Māori:
hākiki
— overly bossy or domineering
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Māori:
ngarengare
— overly bossy or domineering
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Polish:
arogancki
— overly bossy or domineering
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Portuguese:
prepotente
— overly bossy or domineering
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Portuguese:
arrogante
— overly bossy or domineering
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Russian:
вла́стный
(vlástnyj)
— overly bossy or domineering
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Spanish:
oprimente
— overly bossy or domineering
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Spanish:
subyugante
— overly bossy or domineering
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Spanish:
prepotente
— overly bossy or domineering
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Spanish:
despótico
— overly bossy or domineering
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Spanish:
imperioso
— overly bossy or domineering
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Spanish:
dominante
— overly bossy or domineering
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Swedish:
högdragen
— overly bossy or domineering
