Potent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Possessing inner or physical strength; powerful.
  • adj. Exerting or capable of exerting strong physiological or chemical effects: potent liquor; a potent toxin.
  • adj. Exerting or capable of exerting strong influence; cogent: potent arguments.
  • adj. Having great control or authority: "The police were potent only so long as they were feared” ( Thomas Burke).
  • adj. Able to perform sexual intercourse. Used of a male.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Possessing strength
  • adj. Being effective in small quantities.
  • adj. Having a sharp or offensive taste.
  • adj. able to procreate.
  • adj. very powerful or effective.
  • n. A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious.
  • adj. Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential.
  • adj. Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence
  • n. A prince; a potentate.
  • n. A staff or crutch.
  • n. One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Powerful; possessed of inherent strength.
  • Powerful in a moral sense; having great influence; cogent; prevailing; convincing: as, potent arguments; potent interest.
  • Having great authority, control, or dominion.
  • In heraldry, divided or included by a line or lines forming a series of potents: as, a fesse potent. [In this sense originally potenté.]
  • n. A prince; a potentate.
  • n. A crutch; a walking-staff.
  • n. In heraldry: A figure resembling the head of a crutch, and consisting of a parallelogram laid horizontally on the top of a small square.
  • n. A fur made up of patches or figures.
  • n. In watch-making, a journal plate or bearing.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having or wielding force or authority
  • adj. (of a male) capable of copulation
  • adj. having great influence
  • adj. having a strong physiological or chemical effect
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    impotent   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    idempotent    nilpotent    unipotent   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    efficacious    forcible    strong    able    mighty    puissant    cogent    powerful    efficient    influential   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    powerful    subtle    magical    vital    compel    irresistible    formidable