overbearing

Modifies a noun

• mother: Cynthia Darling Michael is driven to distraction by an overbearing mother 's insistence that her healthy daughter is ill.
• father: Finally free from her overbearing father, Emma Frost is on her own for the very first time.
• manner: The constant details of urban detritus blight the town and the poem, but not in an overbearing manner.
• impact: It would also have an overbearing impact on residents whose rear gardens do not directly adjoin the existing hall.
• effect: The bulk and scale of the tower will have an overbearing effect on the local area.
• state: These reforms are not simply protections for the individual against an overbearing state.

Modifying Another Word

• too: Looks awful in caps, thought, much too overbearing.
• not: His face was very pleasant; he looked high but not arrogant, manly but not overbearing.
• slightly: Eccleston's portrayal now seems completely shorn of the slightly overbearing clowning which was evident in the first two episodes.
• somewhat: La Marche de l'Empereur featured a lovey-dovey dialog between the penguins and a score described by Variety magazine as " somewhat overbearing " .
• rather: And our sympathies end up being with the Levite trying to fend off this rather overbearing host.
• never: This is never overbearing, but the beauty is in the clarity.

Used with adjective complement

become: Honor plays Henry's mother to whose home the young Eliza retreats when Henry becomes overbearing.