English
Etymology
From overbear (“to bear down (on)”) + -ing.
Verb
overbearing
- present participle and gerund of overbear
Adjective
overbearing (comparative more overbearing, superlative most overbearing)
- Overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant.
- forceful, overwhelming, or excessive
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
overly bossy or domineering
- Arabic: مُتَسَلِّط (mutasalliṭ)
- Armenian: հրամայական (hy) (hramayakan), բռնապետական (hy) (bṙnapetakan)
- Bulgarian: властен (bg) (vlasten), повелителен (bg) (povelitelen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蠻橫 / 蛮横 (zh) (mánhèng), 霸道 (zh) (bàdào), 盛氣凌人的 (zh) (shèngqìlíngrén de)
- Finnish: määräilevä, komenteleva
- French: dominateur (fr), despotique (fr)
- German: anmaßend (de), herrisch (de), überheblich (de)
- Hebrew: דומיננטי (he), שתלטן
- Hungarian: erőszakos (hu), arrogáns (hu), basáskodó (hu), hatalmaskodó (hu), zsarnokoskodó (hu), pöffeszkedő (hu), fennhéjázó (hu)
- Interlingua: imperiose
- Irish: anúdarásach, forbhríoch, iomarcach, stróinéiseach, tiarnúil
- Latin: imperiōsus
- Māori: tuanui, hākiki, ngarengare
- Polish: arogancki (pl) m
- Portuguese: prepotente (pt), arrogante (pt)
- Russian: вла́стный (ru) (vlástnyj)
- Spanish: oprimente, subyugante, prepotente (es), despótico (es), imperioso (es), dominante (es)
- Swedish: högdragen (sv)
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Further reading
- “overbearing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “overbearing”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “overbearing”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.