🧑‍✈️ Too bossy 🤐 Too self-restrained

overcontrolling

7.2

Holding back your feelings so you rarely show them

adjective
/ˌoʊvərkənˈtroʊlɪŋ/

: controlador

Because of her overcontrolling tendencies, she struggled to express her true feelings during conflicts.

Examples

Her overcontrolling nature made it difficult for her to relax in social situations.
Don't be so overcontrolling with your emotions!
The overcontrolling parent rarely allowed their child to make independent choices.
He became overcontrolling at work, monitoring every detail of his team's projects.
He is too overcontrolling in his relationships.
The overcontrolling manager stifled his team's creativity by not allowing them to share their ideas.
Many found his overcontrolling behavior exhausting, as he always dictated how others should act.

Synonyms

repressed

vsovercontrolling

31 6.5

Having strong feelings that a person keeps inside and does not show to others

is more extreme and restrains feelings and impulses so they are rarely shown

How Restrained

overcontrolling

7.2

restrained

26 5.3

controlled

239 3.4

composed

20 4.3

expressive

39 3.4

Surface Forms

overcontrolling positive

Morphology

overcontrolling = controlling (transparent) = over + control + ing

The word is transparently built from 'controlling' with the prefix 'over-' indicating excessiveness.

Etymology

The word overcontrolling comes from the prefix over- meaning 'too much' and control meaning 'to hold' or 'to manage'. So, being overcontrolling with yourself means you hold your feelings in too tightly and rarely show them.