overmastering
Impossible to resist
Overmastering describes something so powerful it overwhelms all resistance or self-control.
An overmastering urge, fear, or desire is one that cannot be suppressed or ignored—it masters you completely.
The word is somewhat literary: an overmastering impulse to confess, overmastering grief.
Surrounding and consuming completely
- consumingUsing up entirely
- inundatingFlooding or overwhelming completely
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
- overpoweringToo intense to withstand
all-consuming · staggering · paralyzing · suffocating · flooding · swamping · devastating · prostrating
Superior influence over others
- controlAuthority to direct
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- commandAuthoritative instruction given
subjugation · sovereignty · hegemony · ascendancy · predominance · rule · governance · tyranny
Powerfully engaging or persuasive
- uncontrollableImpossible to restrain
- undeniableImpossible to contradict
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
- unstoppableImpossible to halt
urgent · insistent · imperative · demanding · forceful · driving · relentless · persistent
engulfing
Surrounding and consuming completely
- consumingUsing up entirely
- inundatingFlooding or overwhelming completely
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
overpowering · all-consuming · staggering · paralyzing · suffocating · flooding · swamping · devastating · prostrating · immobilizing
dominance
Superior influence over others
command · subjugation · sovereignty · hegemony · ascendancy · predominance · rule · governance · tyranny · despotism
compelling
Powerfully engaging or persuasive
- uncontrollableImpossible to restrain
- undeniableImpossible to contradict
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
unstoppable · urgent · insistent · imperative · demanding · forceful · driving · relentless · persistent · unyielding
desire
Intense wanting
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- lustIntense carnal appetite
- ambitionDesire for achievement
craving · longing · yearning · urge · impulse · compulsion · fixation · mania · fervor · ardor
overmasteringtrivial
Lacking significance or weight
insignificant · negligible · trifling · minor · unimportant
overmasteringsubmissive
Readily yielding to control
yielding · subordinate · subservient · deferential · acquiescent
master, mastery, masterpiece, mastermind, mastered, masterful, mastering, masterly, grandmaster