Synonyms for Overbearing:

• adj.

  •aggressive (adjective)
  • assertive.
  •all (adjective)
  • authoritarian,
  • dictatorial.
  •arrogant, domineering (adjective)
  • ascendant,
  • autocratic,
  • bossy,
  • cavalier,
  • despotic,
  • dictatorial,
  • disdainful,
  • dogmatic,
  • egotistic,
  • haughty,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • high-handed,
  • imperative,
  • imperial,
  • imperious,
  • insolent,
  • magisterial,
  • officious,
  • oppressive,
  • overweening,
  • paramount,
  • peremptory,
  • predominant,
  • preponderant,
  • prevalent,
  • proud,
  • regnant,
  • snotty,
  • sovereign,
  • stuffy,
  • supercilious,
  • superior,
  • tyrannical,
  • uppity,
  • cocky.
  •authoritative (adjective)
  • imperative.
  •bossy (adjective)
  • iron-handed.
  •insolent (adjective)
  • insolent.
  •opinionated (adjective)
  • opinionated.
  •ostentatious (adjective)
  • snobbish.
  •prideful (adjective)
  • on one's high horse.
  •severe (adjective)
  • severe.
  •snobbish (adjective)
  • high hat,
  • uppish.
  •tyrannical (adjective)
  • arrogant,
  • autocratic,
  • despotic,
  • deterministic,
  • dictatorial,
  • discretionary,
  • domineering,
  • draconian,
  • heavy-handed,
  • oppressive,
  • peremptory,
  • totalitarian,
  • tyrannical,
  • tyrannous,
  • Ogreish.

• n.

  •
  • prescriptive.
  •
  • proud.
  •
  • high-and-mighty,
  • insolent,
  • lofty,
  • overweening,
  • superior.
  •
  • bossy,
  • magisterial,
  • masterful.
  •haughty (noun)
  • egotistic,
  • insolent,
  • proud.
  •overbearing (noun)
  • authoritarian,
  • dictatorial,
  • domineering.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bossy,
  • prescriptive,
  • pushy,
  • preachy.
  •
  • egotistic,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • masterful,
  • overweening,
  • rude,
  • severe.
  •
  • insolent.
  •
  • lofty.
  •egotistic
  • proud.
  •oppressive
  • high-handed.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abrupt,
  • absolute,
  • absolutist,
  • absolutistic,
  • affected,
  • arbitrary,
  • aristocratic,
  • ascendant,
  • assertive,
  • assumptive,
  • audacious,
  • authoritarian,
  • authoritative,
  • belittling,
  • big,
  • bluff,
  • blunt,
  • boastful,
  • bossism,
  • bossy,
  • braggart,
  • brash,
  • brazen,
  • brusque,
  • bullying,
  • bumptious,
  • cardinal,
  • categorical,
  • cavalier,
  • certain,
  • chief,
  • churlish,
  • cocksure,
  • commanding,
  • complacent,
  • compulsory,
  • conceited,
  • condescending,
  • conquering,
  • constrictive,
  • contemptuous,
  • controlling,
  • contumelious,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • curt,
  • derisive,
  • didactic,
  • discourteous,
  • disdain,
  • disdainful,
  • doctrinaire,
  • dogged,
  • dogmatic,
  • dominant,
  • dominating,
  • egotistic,
  • egotistical,
  • emphatic,
  • exacting,
  • exhibitionist,
  • exultant,
  • exulting,
  • fascistic,
  • feudal,
  • foremost,
  • gauche,
  • grand,
  • grandiloquent,
  • grandiose,
  • grasping,
  • grinding,
  • gruff,
  • hard,
  • harsh,
  • haughty,
  • hifalutin,
  • high,
  • high hat,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • high-flown,
  • high-handed,
  • highfalutin,
  • hoity-toity,
  • huffish,
  • huffy,
  • ill-bred,
  • ill-mannered,
  • imperative,
  • imperial,
  • imperious,
  • impolite,
  • inflated,
  • inflexible,
  • insistent,
  • insolent,
  • insulting,
  • intolerant,
  • la-di-da,
  • leading,
  • lofty,
  • lordliness,
  • lordly,
  • magisterial,
  • main,
  • master,
  • masterful,
  • mighty,
  • mulish,
  • obdurate,
  • obstinate,
  • officious,
  • opinionated,
  • ostentatious,
  • overconfident,
  • overpowering,
  • overprotective,
  • overriding,
  • overweening,
  • overwhelming,
  • paramount,
  • patronizing,
  • pigheaded,
  • pompous,
  • pontifical,
  • positive,
  • possessive,
  • predominant,
  • predominate,
  • premier,
  • preponderant,
  • prescriptive,
  • pressing,
  • presumptuous,
  • pretentious,
  • prevalent,
  • prideful,
  • primal,
  • primary,
  • principal,
  • proud,
  • purse-proud,
  • pushy,
  • regnant,
  • repressive,
  • restrictive,
  • rude,
  • saucy,
  • scornful,
  • self-absorbed,
  • self-centred,
  • self-important,
  • self-opinionated,
  • self-satisfied,
  • self-seeking,
  • self-willed,
  • severe,
  • sharp,
  • short,
  • showy,
  • single-minded,
  • smug,
  • snobbish,
  • snooty,
  • snotty,
  • sovereign,
  • strict,
  • stubborn,
  • stuck-up,
  • stuffy,
  • supercilious,
  • superior,
  • suppressive,
  • surly,
  • swaggering,
  • swashbuckling,
  • swollen-headed,
  • terse,
  • toffee-nosed,
  • tough,
  • unasked,
  • uncivil,
  • ungentlemanly,
  • ungracious,
  • unjust,
  • unladylike,
  • unmannerly,
  • uppish,
  • uppity,
  • upstage,
  • upstart,
  • vain,
  • vainglorious,
  • wilful,
  • Charging,
  • Magistral,
  • Overruling,
  • preachy,
  • bull-headed,
  • toplofty,
  • la-de-da,
  • monocratic,
  • puffed-up,
  • overmastering,
  • bad-mannered,
  • iron-handed,
  • bitchy,
  • cocky,
  • hubristic,
  • self-engrossed,
  • swelled-headed,
  • on high horse,
  • on one's high horse,
  • lah-di-dah.

Antonyms for Overbearing:

• adj.

  • arrogant, domineering
    democratic, humble, kind, modest, nice, unassertive.
  • Other antonyms:
    accountable, acquiescent, amenable, collateral, complaisant, compliant, conditional, constitutional, contingent, docile, ductile, gentle, humble, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indecisive, inferior, insignificant, irresolute, last, least, lenient, limited, lowly, meek, mild, minor, modest, negligible, obedient, passive, resigned, responsible, secondary, slight, submissive, subordinate, subsidiary, tractable, trifling, trivial, unassuming, unimportant, yielding.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    acquiescent, amenable, collateral, compliant, deferential, democratic, docile, humble, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indecisive, inferior, insignificant, irresolute, last, least, meek, minor, modest, negligible, nice, secondary, self-effacing, slight, submissive, subordinate, subsidiary, tractable, trifling, trivial, unassertive, unassuming, unimportant.