overbearing

overbearing
    adj 1: expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of
           authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing
           behavior toward the waiter" [syn: {authoritarian},
           {dictatorial}, {overbearing}]
    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},
       {overbearing}, {prideful}, {sniffy}, {supercilious},
       {swaggering}]
    

Overbearing \O`ver*bear"ing\, a.
   1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. --I. Watts.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical;
      dictatorial; insolent.
      [1913 Webster] --{O`ver*bear"ing*ly}, adv. --
      {O`ver*bear"ing*ness}, n.
      [1913 Webster]
    

76 Moby Thesaurus words for "overbearing":
      absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic,
      arrogant, ascendant, assertive, authoritarian, authoritative,
      autocratic, big, bossy, bullying, cavalier, condescending,
      despotic, dictatorial, disdainful, dogmatic, domineering, feudal,
      grinding, haughty, high and mighty, high-and-mighty, high-faluting,
      high-flown, high-handed, high-headed, high-nosed, highfalutin,
      hoity-toity, imperative, imperial, imperious, insolent, lofty,
      lordly, magisterial, magistral, master, masterful, monocratic,
      officious, oppressive, overruling, overweening, paramount,
      patronizing, peremptory, predominant, predominate, preponderant,
      pretentious, prevalent, proud, purse-proud, pushy, regnant,
      repressive, severe, snooty, snotty, sovereign, strict, stuck-up,
      supercilious, superior, suppressive, toplofty, tyrannical,
      tyrannous, uppish, uppity, upstage