overpoweringly

1. 1.

   incapable of being resisted

   “the candy looked overwhelmingly desirable to the dieting man”

   Synonymsoverwhelminglyirresistibly

Questions about overpoweringly

What does overpoweringly mean?

overpoweringly means "incapable of being resisted".

How many syllables are in overpoweringly?

overpoweringly has 6 syllables: o-ver-po-we-rin-gly. The stress falls on "we".

What is another word for overpoweringly?

Close synonyms include overwhelmingly, irresistibly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overpoweringly a common word?

overpoweringly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.