Synonyms for overwhelming
ˌoʊ vərˈʰwɛl mɪŋ, -ˈwɛl-over·whelm·ing

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1. overwhelmingverb

   Antonyms:
   underwhelming

2. overwhelmingadjective

   Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.

   Antonyms:
   underwhelming

3. overwhelmingadjective

   Antonyms:
   underwhelming

4. overwhelmingadjective

   Antonyms:
   underwhelming

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1. overpowering, overwhelmingadjective

   so strong as to be irresistible

   "an overpowering need for solitude"; "the temptation to despair may become overwhelming"; "an overwhelming majority"

   Synonyms:
   consuming, overpowering

   Antonyms:
   mild, resistible

2. consuming, overwhelmingadjective

   very intense

   "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"

   Synonyms:
   consuming, overpowering

   Antonyms:
   resistible, mild

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1. overwhelmingadjective

   Synonyms:
   irresistible, overpowering

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1. List of paraphrases for "overwhelming":

   vast, daunting, immense, sweeping, resounding, crushing, huge, damning, crippling, great, enormous, irresistible, insurmountable, large, massive, overriding, tremendous, landslide

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1. Judge Jackson:

   The evidence is overwhelming, it’s more evidence than I’ve probably ever seen.

2. Frans Timmermans:

   We've seen over the last couple of years that radical climate-change deniers have changed their position because the facts are so overwhelming. It's an untenable position, i would assume, as a politician myself, that Donald Trump is thinking about the next election and he's looking at American society. And if you see how much support there is in American society to act upon climate change, he's probably doing the math and thinking that if I want to be reelected, I have to take this seriously.

3. Muzaffar Chishti:

   Fearing the numbers may be large and overwhelming.

4. Mike Lawler:

   Kevin [ McCarthy ] has the support of the overwhelming majority of us, and we will be voting for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, whether it's one ballot or 100 ballots or more, so I think the time for this effort needs to come to an end and everybody in the conference needs to get on board so that we can get about the work we were elected to do, which is stopping the Joe Biden and Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi agenda, advancing our agenda, providing oversight, and getting about restoring balance and common sense in government for the American people.

5. Muhammad Shafee:

   Frankly, we were expecting an acquittal at this stage because in our submission we thought it was overwhelming, but trials, you can never predict (them).