0 too confident and too determined to tell other people what to do, in a way that is unpleasant: --
1 too confident and too determined to tell other people what to do, in a way that is unpleasant and not easy to like: --
an overbearing father
I must accept that sometimes he was impatient, intolerant, perhaps overbearing.
He displayed the most overbearing arrogance and unparalleled conceit.
In a tantalizingly brief conclusion, he explains this outcome by reference to the persistence of an overbearing state and the insufficient entrenchment of citizenship and property rights.
Zimmer has a very readable style - intelligent, but not overbearing, and with just enough technical language to keep even die-hard elitists happy.
In his view, the alleged subversiveness of nineteenth-century narrative "tends to function within the overbearing 'mythologies' that will already have appropriated it" (xi).
This may lead to excessive fruit set in full daylight and consequent overbearing die-back and biennial bearing, unless controlled by pruning and other crop management practices.
Sometimes she was shoddy as a historian; she could be overbearing as a moral philosopher.
I have found, over many years of performing, that you should never put the overbearing political rant in the first 45 seconds of the show.
