overriding
Meaning of overriding
- To ride across or beyond something.
- To ride a horse too hard.
- To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
- To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
noun
The act or process by which something is overridden.
adjective
Superior, of supreme importance in the case.
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Hyphenation of overriding
over-rid-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- overriding is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
overriding synonyms
Meaning paramount:
paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating
Words that rhyme with overriding
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