overmatched
Speech parts
1. overmatched - Adjective
2. overmatched - Verb
Meaning
overmatched (not comparable)
Outclassed; unable to compete
Our team was completely overmatched; we lost 10-0.
overmatched
simple past and past participle of overmatch
Synonyms
Examples
Confronted by his superior, he explained his rationale, claiming withdrawal was more hazardous than continuing his overmatched artillery duel.
Constantly overmatched by better soldiers, led by generals always respectable, often of great ability, he yet defied all their efforts to drive him from Italy, for half a generation.
“Hughes is more well-rounded than Espino and will have the advantage while standing up, though he’ll be totally overmatched on the mat.
Philoxy finished with 26 points on 72 percent shooting from the floor while racking up five assists, and it came against a Fordham team that finished 12-3 in the A-10 that year and had crushed an overmatched UMass team the year before.
Less than three weeks after scoring 41 (in a single half) at USF, Martin dropped 43 on an overmatched Green Wave team at FedExForum.
Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers with unstoppable dramatic force.