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Overwhelming vs Foudroyant - What's the difference?

overwhelming | foudroyant |

As adjectives the difference between overwhelming and foudroyant

is that overwhelming is overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong while foudroyant is having an awesome and overwhelming effect.

As a verb overwhelming

is present participle of to overwhelm .

overwhelming

English

Verb

(head)
  • Present participle of to overwhelm .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.
  • *
    • The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.
  • Very great or intense.
  • Extreme.

    • Antonyms

    * underwhelming

    foudroyant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having an awesome and overwhelming effect.
  • * 1968 , , “The Horatians,” Collected Poems , Modern Library (2007), page 773:
    • [...] "As makers go, / compared with Pindar or any / of the great foudroyant masters who don't ever / amend, we are, for all our polish, of little / stature [...]"
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