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Definition of overbearing in English: overbearingadjective əʊvəˈbɛərɪŋˌoʊvərˈbɛrɪŋ Unpleasantly overpowering. 专横的;蛮横的;盛气凌人的 an overbearing, ill-tempered brute 一个蛮不讲理、脾气暴躁的恶汉。 Example sentencesExamples - You can also meet excessively overbearing golfers who want to solve everything with an arrogant order.
- Our disciple goes from pompous to positively overbearing.
- Wilhemina is a rising surgeon who begrudgingly meets and greets inept blind dates to appease her overbearing mother.
- The dictionary definition of arrogance suggests overbearing behavior based on inappropriate views.
- I was wearing a festive but not overbearing reddish shirt and Keith was decked out in some sleek black duds.
- The waiters, by the way, were exceptionally helpful without being overbearing, and really seemed to know what to advise.
- This is a small, proud country existing in the shadow of a large, overbearing neighbour.
- My parents aren't the snoopy, overbearing kind that stop by to check on your laundry technique.
- Did they have an overbearing father to live up to?
- It promotes a large, bureaucratic, overbearing government state which is protected from free market competition.
- A new survey has revealed that overbearing mothers-in-law are to blame for as many as one in five marriage breakdowns.
- But like many young talents, he fell victim to an overbearing and ambitious parent, intent on living through his son.
- Besides, with my hideous deformity and your overbearing mother, we'd only be punishing ourselves.
- It claimed that an overbearing and threatening management style was leading to staff stress, inefficiency and ill-health.
- At all levels, cunning teachers allied with overbearing students.
- The letters show a devoted if overbearing husband who constantly chides his wife to write more often and to keep up her spirits.
- Such a dangerous, overbearing contraption can no longer be relied upon to deliver the social contracts with its citizens that it once did.
- Heavy, overbearing guitars clash with feeble pianos, annoying violins, and misplaced horns.
- One man enters the male-only space to escape a conflicted marriage with his overbearing, combative wife.
- When you have an inbred arrogance, you are undoubtedly going to appear overbearing and rude.
Synonyms domineering, dominating, autocratic, tyrannical, despotic, heavy-handed, oppressive, high-handed, bullying, high and mighty, lordly, lording it, officious, masterful, dictatorial, bossy, imperious, pontifical, pompous, peremptory, arrogant, cocksure, proud, overproud, overweening, presumptuous, opinionated, dogmatic informal pushy, throwing one's weight about, cocky
Derivativesadverb ˌəʊvəˈbɛərɪŋliˌoʊvərˈbɛrɪŋli The film reiterates this distinction between worlds by directly contrasting the aquamarines, open sky and searing light of Spain with the cold, wet and overbearingly cramped world of London. Example sentencesExamples - The fact is, many physicists can be overbearingly macho about their field.
- Even without the verbal clue, these shadowy, heavy, almost overbearingly masculine works would suggest a world of weaponry and combat.
- But then, if listeners feel the instinctive need to distance themselves from this overbearingly emotional display, there's also something bizarrely compelling about it, at least for me.
- The commentary that accompanies the ads is eye opening, cleanly written and well-informed without being overbearingly insiderish.
noun ˌəʊvəˈbɛərɪŋnəsˌoʊvərˈbɛrɪŋnəs
Definition of overbearing in US English: overbearingadjectiveˌōvərˈberiNGˌoʊvərˈbɛrɪŋ Unpleasantly or arrogantly domineering. 专横的;蛮横的;盛气凌人的 his overbearing, sometimes ruthless desire to succeed Example sentencesExamples - Besides, with my hideous deformity and your overbearing mother, we'd only be punishing ourselves.
- Such a dangerous, overbearing contraption can no longer be relied upon to deliver the social contracts with its citizens that it once did.
- Did they have an overbearing father to live up to?
- The letters show a devoted if overbearing husband who constantly chides his wife to write more often and to keep up her spirits.
- The waiters, by the way, were exceptionally helpful without being overbearing, and really seemed to know what to advise.
- A new survey has revealed that overbearing mothers-in-law are to blame for as many as one in five marriage breakdowns.
- The dictionary definition of arrogance suggests overbearing behavior based on inappropriate views.
- Our disciple goes from pompous to positively overbearing.
- When you have an inbred arrogance, you are undoubtedly going to appear overbearing and rude.
- I was wearing a festive but not overbearing reddish shirt and Keith was decked out in some sleek black duds.
- One man enters the male-only space to escape a conflicted marriage with his overbearing, combative wife.
- This is a small, proud country existing in the shadow of a large, overbearing neighbour.
- It claimed that an overbearing and threatening management style was leading to staff stress, inefficiency and ill-health.
- But like many young talents, he fell victim to an overbearing and ambitious parent, intent on living through his son.
- Wilhemina is a rising surgeon who begrudgingly meets and greets inept blind dates to appease her overbearing mother.
- You can also meet excessively overbearing golfers who want to solve everything with an arrogant order.
- At all levels, cunning teachers allied with overbearing students.
- Heavy, overbearing guitars clash with feeble pianos, annoying violins, and misplaced horns.
- My parents aren't the snoopy, overbearing kind that stop by to check on your laundry technique.
- It promotes a large, bureaucratic, overbearing government state which is protected from free market competition.
Synonyms domineering, dominating, autocratic, tyrannical, despotic, heavy-handed, oppressive, high-handed, bullying, high and mighty, lordly, lording it, officious, masterful, dictatorial, bossy, imperious, pontifical, pompous, peremptory, arrogant, cocksure, proud, overproud, overweening, presumptuous, opinionated, dogmatic |