Lexic.us

Definition of Overbearing

1. Adjective. Expecting unquestioning obedience. "Insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"

2. Adjective. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy. "A more swaggering mood than usual"

Definition of Overbearing

1. a. Overpowering; subduing; repressing.

Definition of Overbearing

1. Adjective. Overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overbearing

1. overbear [v] - See also: overbear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbearing

overbakes overbaking overbalance overbalanced overbalances overbalancing overbank overbank flooding overbanked overbar

overbarren overbars overbattle overbear overbearance overbearing (current term) overbearingly overbearingness overbears overbeat

overbeaten overbeating overbeats overbed overbejeweled overbend overbending overbends overbent overbet

Literary usage of Overbearing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1912)
"*7A husband whose wife leaves him because of his overbearing and unkind conduct is not entitled to a divorce upon the ground of desertion, unless he makes ..."

2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"How, in the meantime, he wrought his way into high Whig circles of London society, and the commanding but somewhat overbearing position which he soon ..."

3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Out-facing, rude persistence, and overbearing impudence. (Latin, ef-fron», ie ex-front, out-face.) Egalité. ..."

4. Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1891)
"... attended to—His arguments in favour of hereditary peerages—overbearing order issued by Comte Wurmser of the Austrian Army—King Louis's expostulation—The ..."

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