overwhelmingly

adverb

over·​whelm·​ing·​ly ˌō-vər-ˈ(h)wel-miŋ-lē 

1

a

: to an overwhelming extent

an overwhelmingly powerful army

b

: extremely

overwhelmingly mediocre

2

: mostly by far

the workers were overwhelmingly female

Examples of overwhelmingly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The bill has gone through several iterations and overwhelmingly passed the Senate in 2024. — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026

This is a season so overwhelmingly dull that it’s taken three different gay guys to recap it. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026

The Bayeux Tapestry has been overwhelmingly popular at the British Museum and earlier this week, a blind man filed a lawsuit against the museum over a lack of audio guides at the exhibition. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Surveys have repeatedly shown that Israelis overwhelmingly believe Palestinians do not want peace at all and, therefore, that Israel has no real negotiating partner. — Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1667, in the meaning defined at sense 1a