Overpowered or Overpowering?

[Ingulit]

I've been in a debate with my girlfriend for a long time as to what the correct term is: overpowered or overpowering. For example, I would say:

This character is overpowered.

while she is saying this is correct:

This character is overpowerING.

because the character is the one doing the overpowering, not getting overpowered. What is right?

 

[Orboknown]

No offense, id lean to your GFs argument.
Though i can see your point as well.

 

[Teran]

Technically she's correct but she's being pedantic about something that is part of a community's lingo.

I mean really if you want to use that kinda logic then you could apply it to just about every sentence someone speaks because people's grammar and use of English is atrocious.

So tell her to shut up and stop being so nitpicky then laugh at her when she says "if I was" instead of "if I were"

Edit: Although actually as an adjective overpowered can fly, since is overpowered is only passive as a verb, whereas as an adjective it can fly.

What was I even thinking before?

Tell her to stfu

 

[Jonas]

"Although actually as an adjective overpowered can fly, since is overpowered is only passive as a verb, whereas as an adjective it can fly."

Yeah both terms seem legit, although it might create unneccesary confusion if you use them intertangably.

 

[Luigitoilet]

tell her to get back in the kitchen

 

[Orboknown]

idk which made me laugh more,LTs response or Terans.

 

[Jim Morrison]

The powerstation is powered

I can't see 'the character is overpowered' being wrong

Overpowering isn't something the character is doing, it's something that he is. So it's an adjective and not a verb. Case closed.

 

[Orboknown]

Jim,when i think of something is "overpowered" i think they are outmatched by the opponent.

 

[Teran]

Yeah ultimately it's contextual and that's an issue English has with its massive affinity for using the passive.

 

[Evil Eye]

Overpowering is a conjugation of a verb. Overpowered is an adjective.

I guess you could jerry-rig "overpowering" as an adjective, but why bother when English has as many stupid flagrant violations of its own rules as it is.

So go with overpowered.

 

[Crimson King]

Always defer to the dictionary. See number 3: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overpowered

 

[LivewiresXe]

The way I see it is this. There are some things worth arguing or debating your woman over, and some things where it's best to just say "sure, you're right". This is probably one of those, lol.

 

[Orboknown]

and EE and CK bossed us all.

 

[Spelt]

Either could be correct tbh

 

[Rici]

Overpowered or ****.


seriously, boo bies are censored nowadays?

 

[Claire Diviner]

You can also forgo "overpowered" and use "broken" instead.

 

[Pikaville]

Or forgo broken and use cheap xD

 

[Life]

"X is Overpowered" = "X has been powered too much"
"X is Overpowering" = "X has a greater power level than everything else"

Either way works.

 

[Pikaville]

God I love Future Fusion so much.

That and Dragon's Mirror 1st turn is so good.

 

[KrIsP!]

I can see why she's saying that, but thing is your not using overpowered as a verb so she is wrong. If you had been using it as a verb it would mean the character has been overpowered by another rather than as an adjective which means it overpowers others. Your right. she is too but only in that instance, she's saying they are currently overpowering [another] rather than saying it is an overpowered character in general.