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UK
/ˌəʊvəwˈɛlmɪŋli/
]
[ US /ˌoʊvɝˈwɛɫmɪŋɫi, ˌoʊvɝhˈwɛɫmɪŋɫi/ ]
[ US /ˌoʊvɝˈwɛɫmɪŋɫi, ˌoʊvɝhˈwɛɫmɪŋɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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incapable of being resisted
the candy looked overwhelmingly desirable to the dieting man
How To Use overwhelmingly In A Sentence
- Physicist and ufologist Stan Friedman argues that it's overwhelmingly likely that some UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft. Posthuman Blues
- And if signage is any indicator, supporters were overwhelmingly in favor of the public option. Archive 2009-08-01
- Older people overwhelmingly feel that children have less respect for the older generation and older people are unable to discipline their children and grandchildren.
- Yet again invidious comparisons are made with our continental neighbours whose milk consumption, in part because of very different climatic conditions, is overwhelmingly of UHT milk. Archive 2007-10-14
- The general odor of the man she loves, one woman states, is highly, sometimes even overwhelmingly, attractive to her; but the specific odor of the male sexual organs which she describes as fishy has no attraction. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
- Mormons, an overwhelmingly Republican demographic (nicknamed the blacks of the GOP), make up something like a third of the people in dentistry school. Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Teacher’s Unions
- The weather was warm and clear; the mood happy in this, the cradle of the American Revolution, which is overwhelmingly pro-Obama. At the Polls: Lines and Lawsuits - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
- In baggy collarless cream shirt and hip-hugging chino trousers he looked so overwhelmingly attractive that she couldn't drag her eyes away.
- Nepal is overwhelmingly patrilineal and patrilocal.
- Against this, however, stood the successful isolation of the political resistance organizations and the overwhelmingly closed nature of the different social milieux inherited from the Weimar period.