overpowering

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

felt or experienced with a lot of force
strongI felt a strong urge to hug him.
powerfulAnger is one of the most powerful human emotions.
intenseShe learned that even intense emotional pain passes.
fierceThe people have a fierce pride in their country.
deepHe suffered from a deep feeling of inadequacy.
deep-seatedHe has a deep-seated loathing of snobbery.
C1
very great or very large: 巨大的，极大的
She said how much she appreciated the overwhelming generosity of the public in responding to the appeal.对公众为响应这个呼吁所表现出的极大慷慨，她发言表达了万分感激。
An overwhelming majority has voted in favour of the proposal.绝大多数的人投票赞成该提议。
There has been overwhelming public support for the proposed shopping development.
The temptation to have another glass of wine proved overwhelming.
The evidence against the suspect is overwhelming.
The home team had the support of the overwhelming majority of the spectators.
The devastation showed the overwhelming power of the earthquake.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Physically strong and powerful
(as) tough as old bootsidiom
beefy
billy-o
brute
brute forcephrase
bulletproof
indestructible
indestructibly
industrial-strength
intensely
invincible
ruggedly
shatterproof
shockproof
sinewy
souped-up
stalwart
violent
washboard stomach
with a vengeanceidiom

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Enormous

overwhelming | American Dictionary

overwhelming
adjective
us/ˌoʊ·vərˈhwel·mɪŋ, -ˈwel·mɪŋ/
very great or strong:
An overwhelming majority voted in favor of the proposal.
I felt an overwhelming sense of relief when the semester was over.

overwhelmingly

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ˌoʊ·vərˈhwel·mɪŋ·li, -ˈwel-/
In April, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the bill.

Examples of overwhelming

overwhelming
The overwhelming lack of literature on the subject, however, would lead one to think otherwise.
However, despite its overwhelming majority of 122 out of 182 seats in the legislature, the party found governing more difficult than getting elected.
Our analysis indicates that the overwhelming majority of attacks are the result of malformed input exploiting a software vulnerability of a network-attached process.
There may have been individual cases that arose out of different concerns, but the overwhelming majority were about trust.
The number of new sources coming online every year, and the number of changes to existing sources, is simply overwhelming.
Overwhelming our exstudents respond that it is the most stressful but important and educationally useful part of the course.
Overwhelming cross-cultural evidence suggests that the reduction or withdrawal of optimal care when child-rearing circumstances are unfavorable is a prominent feature of human evolutionary history.
The overwhelming reason for a failed interview in 2000 was the inability to locate and contact the respondent.
All but one of them found the concordance lines "slightly overwhelming" and "difficult to understand" (p. 245) because of their colloquial nature.
Although many information needs exist, receiving general information addressing numerous areas can often be overwhelming.
This absence of love, she argues, stems from an overwhelming obsession with the self, and from an excessive preoccupation with consumerism and material acquisition.
An overwhelming majority of the respondents agreed with the statement, ' my lifestyle here matches with my expectations of retirement lifestyle'.
At times the ' weight ' of evidence becomes, perhaps, too overwhelming for even the specialised reader easily to absorb.
The experience of overwhelming stressors at work, or failure in managing diverse responsibilities, could foster a general sense of ineffectuality, depressive affect, and low self-esteem.
The overwhelming majority of the errors consisted of a missing letter.
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