overpowering

Speech parts

1. overpowering - Noun

2. overpowering - Adjective

3. overpowering - Verb

5. overpowering - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Overpower

Excelling in power; too powerful; irresistible.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

downing strong massive killing dominant overwhelming formidable victorious crushing conquering oppressive jamming intolerable uncontrollable invincible
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Antonyms

black gray failure dark dull boring
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Phrases with the word

overpowering force

Examples

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you. Greta Scacchi

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters. Lawrence Welk

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child? Delmore Schwartz

The adherents of this ideology are overpowering other voices within Muslim debate, especially those trying to challenge it. There are so many strong, positive Muslim voices that are being drowned out. David Cameron

The tragedy about Romeo and Juliet is not that they died so young but that the boy-meets-girl reflex should be so overpowering as to defeat all common sense. Robert A. Heinlein

I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive. Natsuo Kirino

Close letter words and terms

overpowered overpowerer overpowerful overpowering force overpoweringly overpoweringness