very great or very strong; so powerful that you cannot resist it or decide how to react:
The evidence against him was overwhelming. * The overwhelming majority of those present were in favour of the plan. * an overwhelming sense of loss / relief * She had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him the truth. * You may find it somewhat overwhelming at first. * There was overwhelming support for our policies.
overwhelmingly adverb:
They voted overwhelmingly against the proposal.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for overwhelming is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is overwhelming a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, overwhelming is tagged as adjective.
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