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overwhelming
adjective
1 overwhelming
So strong as to be irresistible:
— The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
— An overwhelming majority.
synonym: overpowering.
Roget 159:
strong,
mighty,
vigorous,
forcible,
hard,
adamantine,
stout,
robust,
sturdy,
hardy,
powerful,
potent,
puissant,
valid.
resistless,
irresistible,
invincible,
proof against,
impregnable,
unconquerable,
indomitable,
dominating,
inextinguishable,
unquenchable;
incontestable;
more than a match for;
overpowering,
overwhelming;
all powerful,
all sufficient;
sovereign.
able-bodied;
athletic;
Herculean,
Cyclopean,
Atlantean†;
muscular,
brawny,
wiry,
well-knit,
broad-shouldered,
sinewy,
strapping,
stalwart,
gigantic.
manly,
man-like,
manful;
masculine,
male,
virile.
unweakened†,
unallayed,
unwithered†,
unshaken,
unworn,
unexhausted†;
in full force,
in full swing;
in the plenitude of power.
stubborn,
thick-ribbed,
made of iron,
deep-rooted;
strong as a lion,
strong as a horse,
strong as an ox,
strong as brandy;
sound as a roach;
in fine feather,
in high feather;
built like a brick shithouse;
like a giant refreshed.
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Roget 824:
excited
etc.
v.;
wrought up,
up the qui vive [Fr.],
astir,
sparkling;
in a quiver
etc.
821,
in a fever,
in a ferment,
in a blaze,
in a state of excitement;
in hysterics;
black in the face,
overwrought,
tense,
taught,
on a razor's edge;
hot,
red-hot,
flushed,
feverish;
all of a twitter,
in a pucker;
with quivering lips,
with tears in one's eyes.
flaming;
boiling over;
ebullient,
seething;
foaming at the mouth;
fuming,
raging,
carried away by passion,
wild,
raving,
frantic,
mad,
distracted,
beside oneself,
out of one's wits,
ready to burst,
bouleverse†,
demoniacal.
lost,
eperdu [Fr.],
tempest-tossed;
haggard;
ready to sink.
stung to the quick,
up,
on one's high ropes.
exciting,
absorbing,
riveting,
distracting
etc.
v.;
impressive,
warm,
glowing,
fervid,
swelling,
imposing,
spirit-stirring,
thrilling;
high-wrought;
soul-stirring,
soul-subduing;
heart-stirring,
heart-swelling,
heart-thrilling;
agonizing
etc.
(painful)
830;
telling,
sensational,
hysterical;
overpowering,
overwhelming;
more than flesh and blood can bear;
yellow.
piquant
etc.
(pungent)
392;
spicy,
appetizing,
provocative,
provoquant†,
tantalizing.
eager to go,
anxious to go,
chafing at the bit.
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Roget 870:
surprised
etc.
v.;
aghast,
all agog,
breathless,
agape;
open-mouthed;
awestruck,
thunderstruck,
moonstruck,
planet-struck;
spellbound;
lost in amazement,
lost in wonder,
lost in astonishment;
struck all of a heap,
unable to believe one's senses,
like a duck ion thunder.
wonderful,
wondrous;
surprising
etc.
v.;
unexpected
etc.
508;
unheard of;
mysterious
etc.
(inexplicable)
519;
miraculous.
indescribable,
inexpressible,
inaffable†;
unutterable,
unspeakable.
monstrous,
prodigious,
stupendous,
marvelous;
inconceivable,
incredible;
inimaginable†,
unimaginable;
strange
etc.
(uncommon)
83;
passing strange.
striking
etc.
v.;
overwhelming;
wonder-working.
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2 overwhelming
Very strong; urgently felt:
— Overwhelming joy.
synonym: consuming.
Moby thesaurus: absolute, adducible, admissible, agitating, amazing, astonishing, astounding, attestative, attestive, authentic, awe-inspiring, awesome, based on, bewildering, breathtaking, burdensome, certain, charged, circumstantial, cliff-hanging, conclusive, confounding, convincing, crushing, cumulative, damning, decisive, determinative, devastating, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, documentary, documented, electric, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, exciting, exhilarating, eye-opening, eye-witness, factual, final, firsthand, formidable, founded on, galvanic, grounded on, heady, hearsay, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impenetrable, implicit, impregnable, impressive, incontestable, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, indomitable, inexpugnable, inflammatory, insuperable, intoxicating, invincible, inviolable, invulnerable, irrefutable, irresistible, jarring, jolting, maddening, material, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, monumental, moving, nuncupative, overcoming, overmastering, overmatching, overpowering, perturbing, piquant, presumptive, probative, prodigious, provocative, provoking, ravishing, reliable, resistless, significant, soul-stirring, spectacular, spirit-stirring, staggering, startling, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, stunning, stupefying, suggestive, sure, surprising, suspenseful, suspensive, symptomatic, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, troubling, unassailable, unbearable, unbeatable, unconquerable, uncontrollable, unendurable, unsettling, unsubduable, unsurmountable, unyielding, upsetting, valid, weighty ... show more.
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