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Webster 1913 Edition

Overwhelming

Oˊver-whelm′ing

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Adj.

Overpowering; irresistible.

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Oˊver-whelm′ing-ly

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adv.

Webster 1828 Edition

Overwhelming

OVERWHELM'ING

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ppr.

Crushing with weight or numbers.

Definition 2024

overwhelming

overwhelming

English

Verb

overwhelming

present participle of overwhelm

Adjective

overwhelming ‎(comparative more overwhelming, superlative most overwhelming)

Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.
- 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  
  The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.
Very great or intense.
Extreme.

Antonyms

underwhelming

Translations

overpowering

Arabic: غَالِب ‎(ḡālib)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 压倒性的 ‎(yā dǎo xìng de)
Dutch: overweldigend (nl)
Finnish: musertava
French: accablant (fr)
Georgian: უძლეველი ‎(uʒleveli), დაუძლეველი ‎(dauʒleveli), გადამეტებული ‎(gadameṭebuli)
German: überwältigend (de)
Greek: συντριπτικός (el) ‎(syntriptikós)
Hungarian: elsöprő
Indonesian: kewalahan (id)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: overveldende
Portuguese: irresistivelmente forte, exageradamente maior, esmagador (pt)
Romanian: copleșitor (ro), covârșitor (ro)
Russian: ошеломля́ющий (ru) ‎(ošelomljájuščij), подавля́ющий (ru) ‎(podavljájuščij)
Spanish: imponente (es), irresistiblemente fuerte
Turkish: baskın (tr), (law) ezici (tr), çok büyük

Noun

overwhelming ‎(plural overwhelmings)

A situation of being overwhelmed.
- 2013, David Ford, Theology: A Very Short Introduction (page 9)
  They have centuries of premodern experience in coping with being overwhelmed in multiple ways—not only by God, but also by other overwhelmings that have always been part of the human condition, such as disease, famine, war […]