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Delighting vs Overpowering - What's the difference?

delighting | overpowering |

As verbs the difference between delighting and overpowering

is that delighting is while overpowering is .

As an adjective overpowering is

that overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.

delighting

English

Verb

(head)

    • overpowering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}