overwhelming

English

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Verb

overwhelming

1. Present participle of to overwhelm.

Adjective

overwhelming (comparative more overwhelming, superlative most overwhelming)

1. Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.
   • 1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm, chapter 1

     The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.

2. Very great or intense.
3. Extreme.

Antonyms

• underwhelming

Translations

overpowering

• Arabic: غالب (ar) (ghaalib)
• Dutch: overweldigend (nl)
• Finnish: musertava (fi)
• German: überwältigend (de)
• Hungarian: elsöprő (hu)

• Greek: συντριπτικός (el) (syntriptikós)
• Indonesian: kewalahan (id)
• Portuguese: irresistivelmente forte, exageradamente maior
• Spanish: imponente, irresistiblemente fuerte.
• Turkish: baskın (tr), (law) ezici (tr), çok büyük (tr)