Word Meanings - BROWBEATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BROWBEATING)

• Arrogance
• Haughtiness
• contemptuousness
• overbearingness
• hauteur
• browbeating
• loftiness
• self-conceit
• stateliness
• vainglory
• insolence
• self-importance
• assumption
• discourtesy
• Threat
• Menace
• denunciation
• intimidation

Related words: (words related to BROWBEATING)

• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• BROWBEATING
  The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.
• THREATEN
  1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
• LOFTINESS
  The state or quality of being lofty.
• SELF-CONCEITED
  Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited. -- Self`-con*ceit"ed*ness, n.
• VAINGLORY
  Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness. He had nothing of vainglory. Bacon. The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his neck i' the combat, he'll break't himself
• DISCOURTESY
  Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.
• THREAT
  The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak. (more info) irdriozan, Icel. to fail,
• THREATFUL
  Full of threats; having a menacing appearance. Spenser. -- Threat"ful*ly, adv.
• BROWBEAT
  To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten.
• MENACER
  One who menaces.
• THREATENER
  One who threatens. Shak.
• DENUNCIATION
  1. Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.
• MENACE
  The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. His commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman. The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden. (more info) acis, projecting,
• HAUTEUR
  Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.
• ASSUMPTION
  The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism. 5. The taking of a person up into heaven. Hence: (Rom. Cath. & Greek Churches) (more info) 1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The
• HAUGHTINESS
  The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance. Syn. -- Arrogance; disdain; contemptuousness; superciliousness; loftiness. -- Haughtiness, Arrogance, Disdain. Haughtiness denotes the expression of conscious and proud superiority; arrogance is
• THREATENING
  a. & n. from Threaten, v. -- Threat"en*ing*ly, adv. Threatening letters , letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.
• STATELINESS
  The quality or state of being stately. For stateliness and majesty, what is comparable to a horse Dr. H. More.
• ARROGANCE
  The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue