Thesaurus / overbearing
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Besides keeping a check on personal biases, Aggarwal also has to battle overbearing authorities.
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SHURE AONIC 50 REVIEW: STUDIO-QUALITY SOUND, BUT NOT REFERENCE-GRADE NOISE-CANCELINGBILLY CADDENJULY 7, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEEverything, though, is turbulent in Franklin’s adult life in “Genius,” the effect of which, the series contends, is the loss of the singer’s mother at age 6 and a loving, nurturing but also overbearing and larger-than-life father.
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THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIEIn his elevation he was proud, overbearing and cruel, and the barons rose up against him, and accomplished his destruction.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLThe rebel soldiers became more and more insulting and overbearing.
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHY OF PARSON BROWNLOW, THE TENNESSEE PATRIOTWILLIAM GANNAWAY BROWNLOWHe possessed a vigorous intellect, great energy of thought and action, overbearing-purpose, and unflinching courage.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLANThis last comer appeared to be in a state of great excitement, and his brutal, overbearing nature was clearly in evidence.
A LITTLE UNION SCOUTJOEL CHANDLER HARRISWORDS RELATED TO OVERBEARING
- ascendant
- assertive
- authoritative
- bossy
- chief
- commanding
- demonstrative
- despotic
- domineering
- effective
- first
- foremost
- governing
- imperative
- imperious
- leading
- main
- obtaining
- overbalancing
- overbearing
- overweighing
- paramount
- powerful
- predominant
- predominate
- preeminent
- preponderant
- presiding
- prevailing
- prevalent
- principal
- regnant
- reigning
- ruling
- sovereign
- supreme
- surpassing
- transcendent
- adamant
- arbitrary
- assertive
- biased
- bigoted
- bossy
- bullheaded
- cocksure
- cocky
- conceited
- dictatorial
- doctrinaire
- dogmatic
- hard-line
- high-handed
- inflexible
- intransigent
- locked-in
- obdurate
- obstinate
- one-sided
- oracular
- overbearing
- pigheaded
- positive
- pragmatic
- pragmatical
- prejudiced
- self-assertive
- set in stone
- set on
- single-minded
- stubborn
- tilted
- uncompromising
- unyielding
- weighted
- backbreaking
- bleak
- brutal
- burdensome
- confining
- cruel
- demanding
- depressing
- depressive
- despotic
- dictatorial
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dismal
- dispiriting
- exacting
- exigent
- gloomy
- grievous
- grinding
- harsh
- headache
- heavy
- heavy-handed
- hefty
- inhuman
- ironhanded
- mean
- onerous
- overbearing
- rough going
- severe
- somber
- superincumbent
- taxing
- tough
- troublesome
- tyrannical
- unjust
- weighty
- affected
- bloated
- boastful
- bombastic
- conceited
- flatulent
- flaunting
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-and-mighty
- high-flown
- highfalutin
- imperious
- important
- inflated
- magisterial
- magniloquent
- narcissistic
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- overblown
- pontifical
- portentous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffed-up
- rhetorical
- self-centered
- self-important
- selfish
- showy
- sonorous
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- turgid
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
- windy
- absolute
- all-powerful
- almighty
- arbitrary
- ascendant
- authoritative
- capital
- chief
- controlling
- directing
- dominant
- dominating
- effective
- efficacious
- governing
- holding the reins
- imperious
- influential
- leading
- main
- mighty
- official
- omnipotent
- overbearing
- overpowering
- paramount
- potent
- predominate
- preponderant
- prevailing
- prevalent
- primary
- prime
- principal
- prominent
- reigning
- sovereign
- superior
- superlative
- supervisory
- supreme
- surpassing
- transcendent
- weighty
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