a. | 1. | Overpowering; subduing; repressing. |
2. | Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. |
Adj. | 1. | overbearing - expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter" Synonyms: authoritarian, dictatorial |