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| Main Entry: | overbearing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, domineering |
| Synonyms: | autocratic, bossy, cavalier, cocky*, despotic, dictatorial, disdainful, dogmatic, egotistic, haughty, high-handed*, imperative, imperial, imperious, insolent, magisterial, officious, oppressive, overweening, paramount, peremptory, predominant, preponderant, prevalent, proud, regnant, snotty*, sovereign, stuffy, supercilious, superior, tyrannical, uppity*, ascendant, high-and-mighty*, sniffy |
| Antonyms: | kind, modest, nice, unassertive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | arrogant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having exaggerated self-opinion |
| Synonyms: | aloof, assuming, audacious, autocratic, bossy, cavalier, cheeky, cocky, conceited, contemptuous, cool*, disdainful, domineering, egotistic, haughty, high and mighty*, high-handed, imperious, insolent, know-it-all*, lordly, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, scornful, self-important, smug, snippy*, snooty*, snotty*, supercilious, superior, uppity*, vain, wise guy*, biggety, bragging, cold-shoulder*, on an ego trip, puffed up, smarty, sniffy, stuck up, swaggering |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, servile, unconceited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assertive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive |
| Synonyms: | absolute, assured, certain, confident, decided, decisive, demanding, dogmatic, domineering, emphatic, firm, forceful, forward, insistent, militant, overbearing, positive, pushy, self-assured, self-confident, strong-willed, sure |
| Antonyms: | diffident, quiet, shy, unconfident |
| Main Entry: | assuming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | presumptuous, arrogant |
| Synonyms: | bold, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistic, forward, haughty, imperious, overbearing, pushy, rude |
| Antonyms: | doubting, unassuming |
| Main Entry: | bossy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domineering |
| Synonyms: | authoritarian, commanding, controlling, despotic, dictatorial, high-handed, imperious, oppressive, overbearing, overpowering, pushy, strict, tyrannical, iron-handed |
| Main Entry: | cavalier |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant |
| Synonyms: | condescending, curt, disdainful, haughty, insolent, lofty, lordly, offhand, overbearing, proud, scornful, snooty*, snotty*, supercilious, superior, high-and-mighty* |
| Antonyms: | humble, reticent, shy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dictatorial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tyrannical, authoritarian |
| Synonyms: | absolute, arbitrary, arrogant, autocratic, bossy, clamorous, despotic, doctrinaire, dogmatic, domineering, egotistic, firm, haughty, imperative, imperious, oppressive, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, proud, stern, totalitarian, unlimited, unrestricted, crack-the-whip, dictative, iron-handed, throwing weight around |
| Antonyms: | democratic, docile, passive |
| Main Entry: | disdainful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scornful |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antipathetic, arrogant, averse, cavalier, contemptuous, cool, derisive, egotistic, haughty, hoity-toity*, indifferent, insolent, lordly, overbearing, proud, sneering, snooty*, supercilious, superior, unsympathetic, uppity*, contemning, despising, high-and-mighty*, rejecting, repudiating, scouting, toplofty |
| Antonyms: | loving, respectful, esteemable, favoring, praising |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | domineering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oppressive, authoritarian |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, autocratic, bossy, coercive, crack the whip, despotic, dictatorial, egotistic, high-handed, imperative, imperial, imperious, in driver's seat, insolent, iron-handed, on high horse, overbearing, peremptory, tyrannical |
| Antonyms: | submissive, surrendering, yielding |
| Main Entry: | haughty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant |
| Synonyms: | assuming, cavalier*, conceited, contemptuous, detached, disdainful, distant, egotistic, high, high and mighty*, hoity-toity*, imperious, indifferent, lofty, overbearing, overweening, proud, reserved, scornful, snobbish, snooty*, snotty*, stuck-up*, supercilious, superior, uppity*, egotistical, on high horse, sniffy |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, shy, timid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | highfalutin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, boastful, conceited, flaunting, grandiose, high and mighty*, important, lofty, ostentatious, overbearing, presumptuous, pretentious, puffy, self-centered, stuck-up*, swanky, uppity*, vain, puffed up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | high-handed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domineering |
| Synonyms: | authoritarian, autocratic, bossy, dictatorial, imperious, oppressive, overbearing, tyrannical, ironhanded |
| Main Entry: | insolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bold, disrespectful |
| Synonyms: | abusive, arrogant, barefaced, brassy*, brazen, breezy, contemptuous, dictatorial, discourteous, disdainful, flip*, fresh, imperative, impertinent, impolite, impudent, insubordinate, insulting, magisterial, nervy, offensive, overbearing, peremptory, pert, put down, rude, sassy*, saucy*, smart, uncivil, ungracious, contumelious, off-base, out-of-line, procacious, smart-alecky |
| Antonyms: | cowardly, humble, modest, polite, respectful, servile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opinionated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believing very strongly and conveying it |
| Synonyms: | adamant, arbitrary, assertive, biased, bigoted, bossy, bullheaded*, cocksure*, cocky*, conceited, dictatorial, doctrinaire, dogmatic, hard-line*, high-handed, inflexible, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, one-sided, oracular, overbearing, pigheaded*, positive, pragmatic, prejudiced, self-assertive, single-minded, stubborn, uncompromising, unyielding, locked in, pragmatical, set in stone, set-on, tilted, weighted |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, open-minded, compromising |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | paramount |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | principal, superior |
| Synonyms: | capital, cardinal, chief, commanding, controlling, crowning, dominant, eminent, first, foremost, leading, main, outstanding, overbearing, predominant, predominate, preeminent, premier, preponderant, prevalent, primary, prime, regnant, sovereign, supreme, ascendant, headmost |
| Notes: | paramount means 'primary, top'; tantamount means 'equivalent to, same as'; paramount first meant 'highest in jurisdiction' |
| Antonyms: | inferior, last, least, less, lesser, lowest, minor, secondary, trivial, smallest |
| Main Entry: | pompous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty*, high-flown*, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffy*, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up*, supercilious, turgid, uppity*, vain, vainglorious, windy*, highfaluting*, puffed up |
| Antonyms: | dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | predominant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ruling; most important |
| Synonyms: | absolute, almighty, arbitrary, authoritative, capital, chief, controlling, dominant, dominating, effective, efficacious, governing, imperious, influential, leading, main, mighty, official, omnipotent, overbearing, overpowering, paramount, potent, predominate, preponderant, prevailing, prevalent, primary, prime, principal, prominent, reigning, sovereign, superior, superlative, supreme, transcendent, weighty, all-powerful, ascendant, directing, holding the reins, supervisory, surpassing |
| Antonyms: | inconsequential, minor, trivial, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | self-important |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceited |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, cocky, immodest, know-it-all, overbearing, pompous, smug, vain, vainglorious, bigheaded, egotistical, full of hot air, puffed up, stuck up, swollen-headed |
| Main Entry: | snobbish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stuck-up, conceited |
| Synonyms: | aloof, arrogant, condescending, egotistic, haughty, high-flown*, ostentatious, overbearing, patronizing, persnickety*, pompous, pretentious, remote, snippy*, snooty*, snotty*, supercilious, superior, swanky, uppity*, high-and-mighty*, high-hat*, putting on airs, sniffy, tony, uppish |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, friendly, generous, sociable, accepting, welcoming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sovereign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dominant, effective |
| Synonyms: | absolute, autonomous, chief, commanding, effectual, efficacious, excellent, highest, imperial, independent, lofty, majestic, overbearing, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant, prevalent, principal, regal, regnant, reigning, royal, ruling, supreme, unlimited, ascendant, directing, guiding, monarchal, monarchial, self-governed |
| Antonyms: | inferior, submissive, subservient |
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