crushingly
In devastating fashion
Crushingly intensifies adjectives and verbs to emphasize overwhelming or devastating force.
A crushingly boring lecture is unbearably dull.
A crushingly obvious point is so apparent it hardly needs stating.
He was crushingly defeated suggests total, humiliating loss.
The word implies weight pressing down—something so heavy it flattens resistance or hope.
To an overpowering degree
- extremelyTo an intense degree
- profoundlyTo an extreme degree
- deeplyTo a profound extent
- immenselyTo vast degree
severely · acutely · unbearably · impossibly · thoroughly · utterly · completely · totally
Difficult to endure
- stiflingOppressively hot and close
- suffocatingDepriving of air
- heavyOf great mass
- weightyHeavy or significant
onerous · taxing · exhausting · debilitating · paralyzing · grinding · punishing · relentless
Causing intense emotional anguish
- shatteringBreaking violently apart
- gut-wrenchingCausing intense emotional anguish
- tragicCausing great sorrow
- catastrophicCausing complete destruction
ruinous · bleak · desolate · hopeless · despairing · sorrowful · grief-stricken · anguished
Having great strength
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- dominantHaving superior influence
- decisiveQuick to conclude
- resoundingEchoing loudly and fully
emphatic · thorough · complete · total · absolute · commanding · definitive · authoritative
overwhelmingly
To an overpowering degree
- extremelyTo an intense degree
- profoundlyTo an extreme degree
- deeplyTo a profound extent
immensely · severely · acutely · unbearably · impossibly · thoroughly · utterly · completely · totally · absolutely
burdensome
Difficult to endure
- stiflingOppressively hot and close
- suffocatingDepriving of air
- heavyOf great mass
weighty · onerous · taxing · exhausting · debilitating · paralyzing · grinding · punishing · relentless · unrelenting
heartbreaking
Causing intense emotional anguish
- shatteringBreaking violently apart
- gut-wrenchingCausing intense emotional anguish
- tragicCausing great sorrow
catastrophic · ruinous · bleak · desolate · hopeless · despairing · sorrowful · grief-stricken · anguished · woeful
powerful
Having great strength
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- dominantHaving superior influence
- decisiveQuick to conclude
resounding · emphatic · thorough · complete · total · absolute · commanding · definitive · authoritative · convincing
crushinglyupliftingly
In an elevating manner
encouragingly · hearteningly · inspiringly · exhilaratingly · buoyantly
- crushing itSucceeding impressively, colloquially
- crushing blowOverwhelming, decisive strike
- crushing defeatOverwhelming, decisive loss
- bone crushingExtremely powerful, destructive force
- crushing powerCapacity to utterly defeat
- crushing pressureForce compacting from all sides