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Synonyms of overbearing in English:

overbearing


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adjective

1‘she can't wait to escape her overbearing parents’

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, throwing one's weight around, cocky