overmastering
/əʊvəˈmɑːstəɹɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
present participle and gerund of overmaster
adj
Which overmasters; dominating, oppressive, conquering.
Example Sentences
- "Their overmastering fear of witchcraft"
- "Yet from my very earliest consciousness I sensed with savage unswerving certainty that other people were not seized by the same rapacious greed, insatiable hunger, overmastering desire, shivering lust and terrible, hurting need that had me in its grip almost every hour of every day."
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /əʊvəˈmɑːstəɹɪŋ/
Inflected Forms
more overmastering (comparative)
most overmastering (superlative)