Overwhelming vs Excessive - What's the difference?
overwhelming | excessive |
Present participle of to overwhelm .
Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.
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Very great or intense.
Extreme.
Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
As adjectives the difference between overwhelming and excessive
is that overwhelming is overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong while excessive is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.As a verb overwhelming
is present participle of to overwhelm .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.
Antonyms
* underwhelmingexcessive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive , nay even stupid."