Word Meanings - OVERWHELMING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Overpowering; irresistible. -- O`ver*whelm"ing*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OVERWHELMING)

• Inextricable
• Overwhelming
• irredeemable
• fatal
• Stupendous
• Amazing
• overwhelming
• marvellous
• wondrous
• vast
• astounding

Related words: (words related to OVERWHELMING)

• FATALNESS
  , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
• WONDROUS
  In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully. For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place. Pope. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold. Coleridge.
• FATALISTIC
  Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
• FATALITY
  1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
• AMAZE
  1. To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak. 2. To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly. "Amazing Europe with her wit." Goldsmith. And
• AMAZEDLY
  In amazement; with confusion or astonishment. Shak.
• INEXTRICABLENESS
  The state of being inextricable.
• STUPENDOUS
  Astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile. "A stupendous sum." Macaulay. All are but parts of one stupendous whole. Pope. -- Stu*pen"dous*ly, adv. -- Stu*pen"dous*ness, n.
• OVERWHELMING
  Overpowering; irresistible. -- O`ver*whelm"ing*ly, adv.
• ASTOUNDING
  Of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing; as, an astounding force, statement, or fact. -- As*tound"ing*ly, adv.
• FATALISM
  The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
• ASTOUND
  Stunned; astounded; astonished. Spenser. Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound. As sudden ruin yawned around. Sir W. Scott.
• AMAZONITE; AMAZON STONE
  A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.
• ASTOUNDMENT
  Amazement. Coleridge.
• AMAZON
  A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis Amazon ant , a species of ant , of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests. (more info)
• FATALLY
  1. In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate. Bentley. 2. In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.
• FATALIST
  One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
• AMAZONIAN
  1. Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike. Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.
• IRREDEEMABLE
  Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder. -- Ir`re*deem"a*ble*ness, adv.
• AMAZING
  Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace. -- A*maz"ing*ly, adv.
• OVERWHELM
  1. To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly. The sea overwhelmed their enemies.