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Overpoweringly

Definition: Overpoweringly

Overpoweringly

Adverb

1. Incapable of being resisted; "the candy looked overwhelmingly desirable to the dieting man".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Date "overpoweringly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Synonyms: Overpoweringly

Synonyms: irresistibly (adv), overwhelmingly (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Overpoweringly

English words defined with "overpoweringly": irresistible. (references)

Usage Frequency: Overpoweringly

"Overpoweringly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Overpoweringly" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	11	106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Modern Translation: Overpoweringly

Language		Translations for "overpoweringly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		überwältigende (overwhelmingly). (various references)

Pig Latin		overpoweringlyay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Overpoweringly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-r-v-w-y"
	-2 letters: overpowering.
	-3 letters: reprovingly.
	-4 letters: overplying, replevying, repowering.
	-5 letters: overgrown, overlying, overpower, prolonger, reproving, veeringly, wolverine.
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Alternative Orthography: Overpoweringly

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 76 65 72 70 6F 77 65 72 69 6E 67 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110000 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0076 0065 0072 0070 006F 0077 0065 0072 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4988718482818971847580737891

Non-English Dictionaries with "Overpoweringly"

Language	Coverage	Language Translations
German	Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition
English	Dictionary, Definition, Translation	englisch

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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