Usually means: Excessive to an extreme degree.
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  1. overwhelming: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overwhelming: Merriam-Webster
  3. overwhelming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overwhelming: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overwhelming: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overwhelming: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overwhelming, overwhelming: Wordnik
  8. overwhelming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overwhelming: Wiktionary
  10. overwhelming: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overwhelming: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Overwhelming, overwhelming: Dictionary.com
  13. overwhelming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Overwhelming: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Overwhelming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. overwhelming: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. overwhelming: Rhymezone
  18. Overwhelming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. overwhelming: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. overwhelming: FreeDictionary.org
  21. overwhelming: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. overwhelming: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overwhelming: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Overwhelming: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overwhelming)

▸ adjective:  Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.
▸ adjective:  Very great or intense.
▸ adjective:  Extreme.
▸ noun:  A situation of being overwhelmed.

Similar:
intense, consuming, overpowering, resistless, irresistible, daunting, whelming, bewildering, immense, insurmountable, more...

Opposite:
underwhelming, manageable, trivial, negligible, simple

Types:
sad, happy, excited, angry, disgusted, fearful, surprised, more...

Phrases:
Overwhelming post-splenectomy infection, Overwhelming exception, overwhelming power, when it is too much and overwhelming, not overwhelming, more...

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Similar:
intense, consuming, overpowering, resistless, irresistible, daunting, whelming, bewildering, immense, insurmountable, more...

Opposite:
underwhelming, manageable, trivial, negligible, simple

Types:
sad, happy, excited, angry, disgusted, fearful, surprised, more...

Phrases:
Overwhelming post-splenectomy infection, Overwhelming exception, overwhelming power, when it is too much and overwhelming, not overwhelming, overwhelming feeling, overwhelming desire, overwhelming noise, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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