overbearing

  • (s) expecting unquestioning obedience
    • the timid child of authoritarian parents
    • insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter
    authoritarian, dictatorial,
  • (s) 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
    haughty, imperious, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering, disdainful, lordly,

Synonyms

authoritarian dictatorial haughty imperious prideful sniffy supercilious swaggering disdainful lordly

Words of close approximity

overbearingly overbearingness