Synonyms for Overbearing:

• adj.

  •aggressive (adjective)
  • assertive.
  •all (adjective)
  • overbearing.
  •arbitrary (adjective)
  • peremptory,
  • no ifs ands buts,
  • Over-bearing,
  • over bearing.
  •arrogant (adjective)
  • more cold shoulder,
  • smartiest,
  • more bragging,
  • more swaggering,
  • most bragging,
  • high mighty,
  • most know-it-all,
  • most cold-shoulder,
  • most swaggering,
  • most cold shoulder,
  • more coldshoulder,
  • most coldshoulder,
  • snootiest,
  • more know it all,
  • sniffier,
  • sniffiest,
  • smartier,
  • more biggety,
  • more cold-shoulder,
  • know it all,
  • most know it all,
  • pre sumptuous,
  • most biggety,
  • pre-sumptuous,
  • more know-it-all,
  • pretentious.
  •arrogant, domineering (adjective)
  • high-handed,
  • despotic,
  • imperial,
  • regnant,
  • officious,
  • cocky,
  • autocratic,
  • sovereign,
  • preponderant,
  • stuffy,
  • snotty,
  • imperative,
  • ascendant.
  •assertive (adjective)
  • most certain,
  • self assured,
  • positive,
  • self confident,
  • strong willed,
  • more positive,
  • selfconfident,
  • strongwilled,
  • selfassured.
  •assumptive (adjective)
  • over-confident,
  • over confident.
  •bitchy (adjective)
  • bad tempered,
  • de-spiteful,
  • most cattish,
  • de spiteful,
  • badtempered,
  • more cattish.
  •bossy (adjective)
  • iron-handed.
  •cavalier (adjective)
  • offhand,
  • more high-and-mighty,
  • more high and mighty,
  • most high and mighty.
  •dictatorial (adjective)
  • more crack-the-whip,
  • most crack the whip,
  • most crack-the-whip,
  • un limited,
  • un restricted,
  • doctrinaire,
  • stern,
  • most dictative,
  • un-limited,
  • un-restricted,
  • more crack the whip,
  • more dictative.
  •disdainful (adjective)
  • in-different,
  • anti pathetic,
  • more toplofty,
  • in different,
  • most toplofty,
  • more rejecting,
  • most despising,
  • most rejecting,
  • hoity toity,
  • hoitytoity,
  • top-lofty,
  • un sympathetic,
  • most repudiating,
  • most contemning,
  • more contemning,
  • more despising,
  • more scouting,
  • anti-pathetic,
  • un-sympathetic,
  • top lofty,
  • more repudiating,
  • most scouting.
  •dogmatic (adjective)
  • more stiff necked,
  • most stiff necked,
  • more wrong-headed,
  • more stiff-necked,
  • de finite,
  • one sided,
  • in tolerant,
  • de-finite,
  • narrowminded,
  • most stiff-necked,
  • stiffnecked,
  • most wrong headed,
  • in-tolerant,
  • narrow minded,
  • un-equivocal,
  • stiff necked,
  • more wrong headed,
  • most wrong-headed,
  • un equivocal,
  • most stiffnecked,
  • most fascistic,
  • more wrongheaded,
  • more fascistic,
  • more stiffnecked,
  • most wrongheaded,
  • wrong headed,
  • onesided.
  •dominant (adjective)
  • more predominate,
  • most surpassing,
  • more overbalancing,
  • more transcendent,
  • fore most,
  • more obtaining,
  • over balancing,
  • fore-most,
  • most outweighing,
  • most overbalancing,
  • pre eminent,
  • most predominate,
  • pre-dominate,
  • out weighing,
  • over-balancing,
  • pre dominate,
  • pre-vailing,
  • out-weighing,
  • most overweighing,
  • pre vailing,
  • sur passing,
  • pre siding,
  • prevailing,
  • sur-passing,
  • pre-siding,
  • more surpassing,
  • over-weighing,
  • over weighing,
  • more overweighing,
  • more outweighing,
  • most obtaining.
  •domineering (adjective)
  • crack whip,
  • in drivers seat,
  • in driver seat,
  • on high horse.
  •haughty (adjective)
  • over weening,
  • re-served,
  • over-weening,
  • stuckup,
  • re served.
  •high-handed (adjective)
  • high handed.
  •highfalutin (adjective)
  • grandiose,
  • self-centered,
  • selfcentered,
  • highfalutin,
  • puffy,
  • self centered,
  • Flaunting.
  •imperative (adjective)
  • more bidding,
  • most bidding,
  • more ordering,
  • most ordering.
  •insolent (adjective)
  • Procacious,
  • out of line,
  • smart alecky,
  • off-base,
  • flipper,
  • out-of-line.
  •lofty (adjective)
  • loftier,
  • high minded,
  • highminded.
  •magisterial (adjective)
  • judicial.
  •opinionated (adjective)
  • tilted,
  • weighted,
  • hard line,
  • locked in,
  • singleminded,
  • self-assertive,
  • hardline,
  • set on,
  • seton,
  • set in stone,
  • set-on.
  •oppressive (adjective)
  • un just,
  • most confining,
  • more headache,
  • de-pressing,
  • un-juster,
  • in human,
  • more superincumbent,
  • de pressing,
  • more confining,
  • in-human,
  • super-incumbent,
  • heavy handed,
  • most disheartening,
  • most superincumbent,
  • un-just,
  • ex-acting,
  • un juster,
  • most headache,
  • more disheartening,
  • super incumbent,
  • un-justest,
  • un justest,
  • dis-heartening,
  • dis heartening,
  • heavyhanded,
  • more depressive,
  • ex acting,
  • most depressive.
  •paramount (adjective)
  • head most,
  • most headmost,
  • para-mount,
  • head-most,
  • more headmost,
  • para mount,
  • out standing.
  •pompous (adjective)
  • portentous,
  • more highfaluting,
  • over-blown,
  • high flown,
  • highflown,
  • over blown,
  • most highfaluting.
  •predominant (adjective)
  • more all powerful,
  • holding the reins,
  • more allpowerful,
  • most allpowerful,
  • most all powerful,
  • more directing,
  • holding reins,
  • pre dominant,
  • most all-powerful,
  • pre-dominant,
  • most directing,
  • more all-powerful,
  • allpowerful.
  •prevalent (adjective)
  • more prevalent.
  •prideful (adjective)
  • on one high horse,
  • on ones high horse.
  •proud (adjective)
  • more dismissive,
  • dismissive,
  • self-respecting,
  • dis-missive,
  • most dismissive,
  • dis missive,
  • self satisfied,
  • selfsatisfied.
  •puffed-up (adjective)
  • puffedup,
  • puffed up.
  •scornful (adjective)
  • hyper critical,
  • hyper-critical.
  •self-important (adjective)
  • more swollen-headed,
  • most swollenheaded,
  • self important,
  • swollenheaded,
  • swollen headed,
  • more swollen headed,
  • full hot air,
  • most swollen headed,
  • most swollen-headed,
  • more swollenheaded,
  • selfimportant.
  •self-respecting (adjective)
  • self respecting,
  • selfrespecting.
  •severe (adjective)
  • effortful.
  •snobbish (adjective)
  • putting on airs,
  • high-hat.
  •sovereign (adjective)
  • more monarchal,
  • most monarchal,
  • most self governed,
  • selfgoverned,
  • in dependent,
  • most monarchial,
  • more guiding,
  • more monarchial,
  • more selfgoverned,
  • in-dependent,
  • most self-governed,
  • self-governed,
  • more self-governed,
  • most selfgoverned,
  • more self governed,
  • self governed,
  • most guiding.
  •supercilious (adjective)
  • snobby,
  • snobbiest.
  •superior (adjective)
  • wiseguy.
  •tyrannical (adjective)
  • deterministic,
  • heavy-handed,
  • Ogreish,
  • discretionary,
  • draconian,
  • tyrannous,
  • totalitarian.
  •unasked (adjective)
  • unwelcome,
  • unprompted,
  • Undemanded,
  • not asked,
  • of one accord,
  • unrequested,
  • supererogatory,
  • without prompting,
  • unbidden,
  • of one's own accord,
  • of own accord.
  •uppish (adjective)
  • more elitist,
  • most elitist.
  •uppity (adjective)
  • high falutin,
  • up pity,
  • up-pity.
  •vainglorious (adjective)
  • more boasting,
  • most boasting,
  • Strutting,
  • most strutting,
  • more strutting.

• n.

  •
  • intrusive,
  • on someone's back.
  •
  • attitude,
  • lofty.
  •
  • over.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • meddlesome,
  • pushy,
  • interfering,
  • preachy,
  • prescriptive.
  •
  • egotistic,
  • nagging,
  • severe,
  • masterful,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • rude.
  •
  • insolent.
  •Other relevant words:
  • curt,
  • absolutistic,
  • conceited,
  • hifalutin,
  • overpowering,
  • hoity-toity,
  • dominating,
  • mulish,
  • toffee-nosed,
  • lah-di-dah,
  • possessive,
  • insistent,
  • authoritative,
  • gruff,
  • pigheaded,
  • brash,
  • self-centred,
  • repressive,
  • presumptuous,
  • terse,
  • complacent,
  • sharp,
  • la-di-da,
  • single-minded,
  • patronizing,
  • overprotective,
  • big,
  • obdurate,
  • egotistical,
  • commanding,
  • predominate,
  • absolutist,
  • snooty,
  • brazen,
  • bullying,
  • disdain,
  • bluff,
  • self-engrossed,
  • chief,
  • leading,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • affected,
  • main,
  • exacting,
  • Overruling,
  • high,
  • categorical,
  • grandiloquent,
  • bumptious,
  • primal,
  • bad-mannered,
  • high hat,
  • hubristic,
  • stubborn,
  • contemptuous,
  • brusque,
  • audacious,
  • premier,
  • surly,
  • ostentatious,
  • stuck-up,
  • purse-proud,
  • unmannerly,
  • obstinate,
  • gauche,
  • constrictive,
  • la-de-da,
  • controlling,
  • swashbuckling,
  • intolerant,
  • unladylike,
  • certain,
  • grinding,
  • ungentlemanly,
  • cardinal,
  • didactic,
  • pressing,
  • bossism,
  • lordliness,
  • insulting,
  • short,
  • swelled-headed,
  • dogged,
  • inflated,
  • tough,
  • aristocratic,
  • absolute,
  • mighty,
  • vain,
  • self-important,
  • grasping,
  • hard,
  • conquering,
  • high-flown,
  • on one's high horse,
  • self-satisfied,
  • emphatic,
  • abrupt,
  • upstage,
  • grand,
  • huffish,
  • impolite,
  • monocratic,
  • principal,
  • unjust,
  • braggart,
  • exhibitionist,
  • ungracious,
  • self-opinionated,
  • cocksure,
  • showy,
  • overwhelming,
  • contumelious,
  • belittling,
  • primary,
  • blunt,
  • overmastering,
  • smug,
  • self-absorbed,
  • uppish,
  • ill-mannered,
  • opinionated,
  • suppressive,
  • inflexible,
  • wilful,
  • saucy,
  • swollen-headed,
  • self-willed,
  • bull-headed,
  • Charging,
  • ill-bred,
  • overconfident,
  • exulting,
  • huffy,
  • condescending,
  • Magistral,
  • restrictive,
  • churlish,
  • upstart,
  • uncivil,
  • compulsory,
  • harsh,
  • foremost,
  • feudal,
  • self-seeking,
  • boastful,
  • overriding,
  • strict,
  • derisive,
  • discourteous,
  • exultant.

Paraphrases for Overbearing:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    domineering.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    Hegemonic.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    controlling.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    high-handed, aggressive.

Antonyms for Overbearing:

• adj.

  • arrogant, domineering
    democratic, modest, unassertive, kind, humble, nice.
  • Other antonyms:
    constitutional, least, indecisive, subsidiary, complaisant, docile, contingent, yielding, inferior, secondary, responsible, lowly, acquiescent, amenable, subordinate, obedient, compliant, last, lenient, passive, mild, tractable, irresolute, limited, accountable, ductile, conditional, resigned, gentle, collateral.