overbearing - Meaning in Konkani

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overbearing - Meaning in Konkani

Definitions and Meaning of overbearing in English

overbearing adjective

1. expecting unquestioning obedience

   Synonyms

   authoritarian, dictatorial

   Examples

   • "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
   • "the timid child of authoritarian parents"
2. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

   Synonyms

   disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering

   Examples

   • "a more swaggering mood than usual"
   • "haughty aristocrats"
   • "his lordly manners were offensive"
   • "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"
   • "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"
   • "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"
   • "walked with a prideful swagger"

Synonyms of overbearing

• authoritarian, dictatorial
• disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering

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