Overbearing, a.
1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts.
2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. --O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for overbearing; he lists it under absolute, dogmatic.
He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.
Synonyms
absolutedogmaticarbitraryarrogantauthoritativeautocraticcoercivecommandingcompulsivecompulsorycontrollingdespoticdictatorialdoctrinaldomineeringexactinghaughtyimperativeimperiousirresponsiblelordlymagisterialopinionatedperemptorypositiveself-opinionatedsupremesystematictyrannicalunconditionalunequivocal