Huge vs Overwhelming - What's the difference?
huge | overwhelming |
Very large.
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, title= (lb) Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.
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Present participle of to overwhelm .
Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.
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Very great or intense.
Extreme.
As adjectives the difference between huge and overwhelming
is that huge is very large while overwhelming is overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.As a verb overwhelming is
present participle of to overwhelm .huge
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Synonyms
* (very large) colossal, enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast * See alsoAntonyms
* (very large) tiny, small, minuscule,Derived terms
* hugely * hugeness * hugeous * superhugeExternal links
* * ----overwhelming
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.
