transcription, транскрипция: [ oʊvə(r)(h)welmɪŋ ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If something is overwhelming , it affects you very strongly, and you do not know how to deal with it.
The task won’t feel so overwhelming if you break it down into small, easy-to-accomplish steps...
She felt an overwhelming desire to have another child.
= overpowering
ADJ
• over‧whelm‧ing‧ly
...the overwhelmingly strange medieval city of Fès.
ADV : ADV adj
2.
You can use overwhelming to emphasize that an amount or quantity is much greater than other amounts or quantities.
The overwhelming majority of small businesses go broke within the first twenty-four months...
The vote was overwhelming–283 in favour, and only twenty-nine against.
ADJ : usu ADJ n [ emphasis ]
• over‧whelm‧ing‧ly
The House of Commons has overwhelmingly rejected calls to bring back the death penalty for murder...
ADV : usu ADV with v , also ADV adj