OVERRIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overriding mean? 

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

1. having superior power and influence

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERRIDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having superior power and influence

Synonyms:

overriding; paramount; predominant; predominate; preponderant; preponderating

Context example:

the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism

Similar:

dominant (exercising influence or control)

 Context examples 

By overriding the last checkpoint defense against DNA damaging agent-induced lethal damage, chk1 inhibitor PF-477736 may potentiate the antitumor efficacy of various chemotherapeutic agents against tumor cells with intrinsic checkpoint defects.

(CHK1 Inhibitor PF-477736, NCI Thesaurus)

He spoke in little, sharp, jerky outbursts, and it seemed to me that to speak at all was very painful to him, and that his will all through was overriding his inclinations.

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

For in these fits he was the most overriding companion ever known; he would slap his hand on the table for silence all round; he would fly up in a passion of anger at a question, or sometimes because none was put, and so he judged the company was not following his story.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Only that at the beginning; but you are to have an overriding commission of one per cent on all business done by your agents, and you may take my word for it that this will come to more than your salary.

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