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overbearing, adj. domineering, imperious, high-and-mighty, lordly, magisterial; high-handed, arbitrary, presumptuous, overweening, cocky, cocksure, overconfident; arrogant, haughty, insolent, contemptuous, cavalier, disdainful, supercilious; proud, prideful, overproud, vain, stuck on oneself, swellheaded, Inf. bigheaded, egotistical, egotistic; pompous, pretentious, lofty, Inf. highfalutin, hoity-toity, self-important, stuffy; conceited, Inf. stuck-up, condescending, patronizing, Inf. uppity, Inf. uppish, snobbish, snobby, Inf. snotty, Inf. snooty; assertive, self-assertive, pushing, Inf. pushy, aggressive; self-willed, willful, forceful, imperative, commanding, masterful, authoritative, authoritarian, Inf. bossy; peremptory, dictatorial, despotic, autocratic, tyrannical, ironhanded; heavy-handed, oppressive, harsh, strict, hard, tough. overblown, adj. 1. overdone, excessive, extravagant, lavish, profuse, copious. See overdone (def. 2).
2. oversize, outsize, overlarge, overbig.
3. elaborate, overelaborate, overdetailed, overworked, overwrought; exaggerated, blown or blown up, blown up out of proportion, magnified, enlarged; inflated, overinflated, swollen, bloated, distended, tumid; plethoric, flatulent, turgid, bombastic, bom-bastical, fustian, orotund, pompous, pretentious, ostentatious; flamboyant, flashy, showy, flowery, florid, ornate, ornamental, fancy; high-sounding, high-flown, lofty, Inf. highfalutin, Inf. high-hat; impressive, grandiose, magniloquent, grandiloquent, Johnsonian, Ossianic, sonorous, sesquipedalian; euphuistic, euphuistical, periphrastic, circumlocutory, roundabout. overboard, adj. 1. (all of a boat, ship, etc.) over the side, off the deck, over the edge; in the water, Inf. in the drink.
2. go overboard go to extremes, go too far, go off the deep end; overreact, carry on, overdo. overcast, adj. 1. cloudy, overclouded, clouded over, overshadowed, shadowy, gray; dreary, dismal, gloomy, somber, lowering, heavy, leaden, oppressive, promising rain; darkened, dark, sunless, starless, moonless; hazy, nubilous, foggy, fogged, misty, misted, Archaic, caliginous, vaporous, murky, murk.
-v. 2. cloud, overcloud, overshadow, overspread, adumbrate, becloud, befog; lower, darken, smoke, dim, bedim, dusk, blind, blacken; grow cloudy, gloom, darkle, promise rain; nebulize, fog, pale, mist, haze, shade, shadow; eclipse, hide, conceal, occult; dull, blur, blear; shroud, cover, cloak, veil, screen, curtain. overcharge, v. 1. charge too much, SI. soak, SI. sting, cheat, Inf. gyp, rook, short-change, SI. rip off;
SI. take, take advantage of, Inf. diddle, Inf. do, SI. burn.
2. overload, overlade, fill too full, fill to the brim or gills, fill to overflowing, overfill, overstuff, overcrowd; overburden, overtask, overtax, strain.
3. exaggerate, overstate, overdo, make much of, overstress, make a mountain out of a molehill, make much ado about nothing; hyperbolize, overdraw; romance, embroider, stretch, stretch the truth or the point, strain the imagination; overcolor, color, paint, paint in glowing terms, oversell, Inf. play up, Inf. build up or on; Inf. pile it on, Inf. lay it on, Inf. lay it on thick, Inf. spread it on thick, SI. bull; embellish, overdevelop, enlarge on, elaborate, add to, augment; magnify, enhance, enrich, deepen, heighten. overcoat, n. topcoat, outer coat, surcoat, Chiefly Brit, greatcoat, winter coat, heavy coat, fearnought, dreadnought; ulster, paletot, raglan; surtout, frock coat; fur, fur coat, parka; coat, wrap, cloak, mantle,
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