Brash vs Overbearing - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between brash and overbearing

is that brash is impetuous or rash while overbearing is overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant.

is leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.

(en-adj)

impetuous or rash

(Grose)

insensitive or tactless

impudent or shameless

Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.

A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

(geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.

(Lyell)

Broken fragments of ice.

(Kane)

* water brash * weaning brash

Compare Amer. (bresk), (brusk), fragile, brittle.

(en-adj)

(US, colloquial, dated) brittle, as wood or vegetables

(Bartlett)

(Webster 1913) ----

(en adjective)

Overly bossy, domineering, or arrogant.

* demanding, dictatorial, dominant, haughty, high-handed * See also * See also

* overbearingly

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