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overwhelming - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | overwhelming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overpowering |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astounding, breathtaking, devastating, exciting, mind-boggling, staggering, stunning, vast, crushing, eye-opening, overcoming, paralyzing, shattering |
| Main Entry: | overwhelm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flood, beat physically |
| Synonyms: | bury, conquer, crush, defeat, deluge, destroy, drown, drub*, engulf, inundate, massacre, overcome, overflow, overpower, overrun, overthrow, rout, smother, submerge, swamp, thrash, total*, whip*, win* |
| Antonyms: | underwhelm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overwhelm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | astonish, devastate |
| Synonyms: | bewilder, bowl over*, confound, confuse, demoralize, destroy, disturb, do in*, downgrade*, drown, dumbfound, floor*, kill*, overcome, overpower, prostrate, puzzle, shatter, shock, stagger, steamroller, stun, subordinate, surprise, swamp, upset, wreck, blow out of the water, render speechless, run circles around |
| Antonyms: | not impress, underwhelm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | astounding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, breathtaking, eye-popping*, mind-blowing*, mind-boggling*, overwhelming, shocking, startling, surprising, wondrous, confounding, stupefying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing |
| Synonyms: | alarming, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awful, beautiful, breathtaking, dreadful, exalted, fearful, formidable, frantic, frightening, grand, hairy*, horrible, imposing, impressive, intimidating, magnificent, majestic, mean, mind-blowing*, moving, nervous, overwhelming, shocking, striking, stunning, terrible, terrifying, wonderful, wondrous, daunting, fearsome, horrifying, real gone, something else, stupefying, zero cool |
| Antonyms: | unamazing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | breathtaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, awesome |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astonishing, awe-inspiring, exciting, hair-raising, impressive, magnificent, moving, overwhelming, spine-tingling, stunning, thrilling, heart-stirring, heart-stopping |
| Antonyms: | disgusting, ugly |
| Main Entry: | compulsive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | driving, obsessive |
| Synonyms: | compelling, enthusiastic, irresistible, overwhelming, passionate, uncontrollable, urgent, besetting |
| Notes: | a compulsive eater is compelled by an exterior force to eat and eats constantly; an impulsive eater is impelled (has an impulse) to eat, occurring sporadically, and eats only from time to time |
| Antonyms: | free, independent, controlled, easy-going |
| Main Entry: | deplorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, shameful |
| Synonyms: | awful, blameworthy, bummer*, calamitous, dire, dirty, disastrous, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, distressing, dolorous, downer*, dreadful, execrable, faulty, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, intolerable, lamentable, lousy, melancholy, miserable, mournful, opprobrious, overwhelming, poor, regrettable, reprehensible, rotten, sad, scandalous, sickening, stinking, terrible, tragic, unbearable, unsatisfactory, woeful, wretched, afflictive, godawful, horrifying, pitiable |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, delightful, excellent, good, happy, shameless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exciting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inspiring, exhilarating |
| Synonyms: | appealing, astonishing, bracing, breathtaking, dangerous, dramatic, eye-popping*, far-out*, fine, flashy, groovy*, hair-raising*, heady*, hectic, impressive, interesting, intoxicating, intriguing, lively, melodramatic, mind-blowing, moving, neat, overpowering, overwhelming, provocative, racy, rousing, sensational, showy, spine-tingling*, stimulating, stirring, thrilling, wild, agitative, animating, arousing, arresting, commoving, electrifying, exhilarant, impelling, rip-roaring, titillating, zestful |
| Antonyms: | boring, moderate, unenthusiastic, unexciting, unenthused, uninspiring, unpromising, unstimulating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grandiose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | theatrical, extravagant |
| Synonyms: | affected, ambitious, august, bombastic, cosmic, egotistic, flamboyant, fustian, grand, high-falutin', high-flown, imposing, impressive, lofty, lordly, magnificent, majestic, monumental, noble, ostentatious, overwhelming, pompous, pretentious, purple*, royal, showy, splashy, stately, unfathomable, vast |
| Antonyms: | calm, moderate, small, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heady |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thrilling, intoxicating |
| Synonyms: | exciting, exhilarating, overwhelming, potent, powerful, provocative, stimulating, strong, inebriating, spirituous |
| Antonyms: | dull, unenthused, unexcited |
| Main Entry: | imposing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impressive |
| Synonyms: | august, big, commanding, dignified, effective, exciting, grand, grandiose, imperial, magnificent, majestic, massive, mind-blowing*, monumental, moving, noble, ominous, overblown, overwhelming, pretentious, regal, royal, stately, stirring, striking, towering, mega, one for the book, something else, something to write home about |
| Antonyms: | common, modest, ordinary, poor, subordinate, trivial, unimportant, unimposing, unimpressive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insurmountable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impossible |
| Synonyms: | hopeless, impassable, impregnable, inaccessible, indomitable, ineluctable, insuperable, invincible, overwhelming, unbeatable, unconquerable, forget it, no way, no-win, not a prayer, unmasterable |
| Antonyms: | attainable, possible, surmountable, beatable, defeatable |
| Main Entry: | irresistible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compelling; inescapable |
| Synonyms: | alluring, charming, enchanting, fascinating, glamorous, imperative, indomitable, ineluctable, inevitable, inexorable, invincible, lovable, overpowering, overwhelming, potent, powerful, ravishing, scrumptious, seductive, stunning, tempting, unavoidable, unconquerable, urgent, beckoning |
| Antonyms: | avoidable, escapable, resistible |
| Main Entry: | mind-blowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing, intense |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, mind-boggling, overwhelming, psychedelic, staggering, stunning, wonderful, eye-opening, hallucinatory, mind-altering |
| Main Entry: | stupendous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wonderful, amazing |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, astounding, breathtaking, colossal, dynamite, enormous, fabulous, fantastic, fat*, gigantic, great, huge, marvelous, mind-blowing*, mind-boggling*, miraculous, monster, monumental, overwhelming, phenomenal, prodigious, radical*, spectacular, staggering, stunning, super, superb, surprising, terrific, too much*, tremendous, unreal*, utmost*, vast, wondrous, fab, smashing, titantic |
| Antonyms: | terrible, unimportant, unimpressive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thrilling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exciting |
| Synonyms: | boss*, breathtaking, enchanting, exquisite, fabulous, frantic, hair-raising*, large, mad, magnificent, mind-blowing*, miraculous, overwhelming, riveting, rousing, sensational, stimulating, stirring, swinging, wild, wondrous, blood-tingling, electrifying, fab, gripping, mind-bending, rip-roaring, shivering, trembling, zero cool |
| Antonyms: | depressing, discouraging, upsetting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unspeakable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad; beyond description |
| Synonyms: | abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, beastly, calamitous, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, fearful, frightening, frightful, heinous, horrible, inconceivable, indescribable, ineffable, inhuman, loathsome, monstrous, nameless, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, overwhelming, preternatural, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, unbelievable, unimaginable, beyond words, horrid, incommunicable, indefinable, inexpressible, unutterable |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
| Main Entry: | insuperable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impassable |
| Synonyms: | impossible, insuperable, insurmountable, overwhelming |
| Main Entry: | overpowering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very strong |
| Synonyms: | intense, irresistible, overwhelming, powerful, uncontrollable |
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