Overpowering Synonyms and Antonyms

ōvər-pouər-ĭng
Awesomely or forbiddingly intense
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. overwhelming
  2. irresistible
  3. uncontrollable
  4. staggering
  5. towering
Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. overwhelming
  2. overcoming
  3. overtaking
  4. prostrating
  5. subjugating
  6. mastering
  7. whelming
  8. engulfing
  9. crushing

Words Related to Overpowering

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Overpowering Sentence Examples

  • That was the overpowering emotion that had come to rule poor Annie's life.

  • The scent of pine trees disappeared, replaced by the overpowering smell of cleaning solution.

  • The arsines and arsine chlorides are liquids of overpowering smell, and in some cases exert an extremely irritating action on the mucous membrane.

  • It is needless to add that, under the overpowering influence of these vain imaginations, the earnest moral teachings of Gotama became more and more hidden from view.

  • For more than fifty years the Roman world was undisturbed by any aggressive act on the part of the new invaders, who contented themselves with overpowering various tribes which lived to the north of the Danube.

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