OVERPOWERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overpowering mean? 

• OVERPOWERING (adjective)
  The adjective OVERPOWERING has 1 sense:

1. so strong as to be irresistible

  Familiarity information: OVERPOWERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERPOWERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

So strong as to be irresistible

Synonyms:

overpowering; overwhelming

Context example:

an overwhelming majority

Similar:

irresistible; resistless (impossible to resist; overpowering)

 Context examples 

Then, as quick as a flash, came an expression of overpowering fear.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken advantage of it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even to see Mr. Crawford would be less overpowering.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

As we did so there came from the inside a stupefying and overpowering smell of chloroform.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their presence always gave her pain, and she hardly knew how to make a very gracious return to the overpowering delight of Lucy in finding her STILL in town.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And then with an overpowering sweetness of relief, it came back upon my mind that the servants were already used to the coming and going of my second self.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And she had a disagreeable consciousness of not appearing to imply that it had been an overpowering pleasure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He knew an overpowering desire for the protection and companionship of man.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A gust of overpowering rage swept over him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I hesitated, the desire to race back and up the steps to the deck almost overpowering me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)