overwhelming

English

overwhelming

overwhelming (comparative more overwhelming, superlative most overwhelming)

Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  
  The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.
Very great or intense.
Extreme.

overpowering

Arabic: غَالِب‎ (ḡālib)
Catalan: aclaparador
Chinese:
Mandarin: 压倒性的 (yā dǎo xìng de)
Dutch: overweldigend (nl)
Finnish: musertava
French: accablant (fr)
Georgian: უძლეველი (uʒleveli), დაუძლეველი (dauʒleveli), გადამეტებული (gadameṭebuli)
German: überwältigend (de)
Greek: συντριπτικός (el) (syntriptikós)
Hungarian: túlnyomó (hu), elsöprő

Indonesian: kewalahan (id)
Italian: schiacciante (it), soverchiante (it)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: overveldende

Nynorsk: overveldande
Portuguese: irresistivelmente forte, exageradamente maior, esmagador (pt), avassalador (pt)
Romanian: copleșitor (ro), covârșitor (ro)
Russian: ошеломля́ющий (ru) (ošelomljájuščij), подавля́ющий (ru) (podavljájuščij)
Spanish: abrumador (es), agobiante (es), imponente (es), apabullante, avasallador (es) m, arrollador (es) m, aplastante (es) m
Swedish: överväldigande (sv)
Turkish: baskın (tr), (law) ezici (tr), çok büyük

overwhelming (plural overwhelmings)

A situation of being overwhelmed.
- 2013, David Ford, Theology: A Very Short Introduction (page 9)
  They have centuries of premodern experience in coping with being overwhelmed in multiple ways—not only by God, but also by other overwhelmings that have always been part of the human condition, such as disease, famine, war […]

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