Definition of Overpowering

1. Adjective. So strong as to be irresistible. "An overwhelming majority"

Exact synonyms: Overwhelming
Similar to: Irresistible, Resistless

Definition of Overpowering

1. a. Excelling in power; too powerful; irresistible.

Definition of Overpowering

1. Verb. (present participle of overpower) ¹

2. Adjective. That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overpowering

1. overpower [v] - See also: overpower

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overpowering

overposting
overposts
overpotent
overpotential
overpotentials
overpour
overpoured
overpouring
overpours
overpower
overpowered
overpowerer
overpowerers
overpowerest
overpowereth
overpowering (current term)
overpoweringly
overpowers
overpraise
overpraised
overpraises
overpraising
overprecious
overprecise
overpredict
overpredicted
overpredicting
overpredicts
overpreparation
overprepare

Literary usage of Overpowering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"... but in both cases there was an overpowering repugnance to the possible truth, which threw a turning weight into the scale of argument. ..."

2. The Court Circles of the Republic, Or, The Beauties and Celebrities of the by Elizabeth Fries Ellet, R. E. Mack (1869)
"Jackson's Election by an overpowering Majority—Death of his Wife— His ... GENERAL JACKSON was brought into office by an overpowering majority, ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"That overpowering sense of weight and grandeur which calls forth the inward cry to the mountains to cover us, as we pass beneath some vast precipice, ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"If insanity were to be analogized to sudden or overpowering illness, which renders It impossible for a person to perform an act or discharge a duty, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... Conn and dilettantisme tac- tique, while overlooking the factors of energy and overpowering moral force which, through all material changes in armament, ..."

6. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1911)
"... weeping silently and long; but from what she afterward told me l know it was not from terror or sorrow, but from the overpowering gladness of the ..."

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