Powerful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having or capable of exerting power.
  • adj. Effective or potent: a powerful drug.
  • adj. Chiefly Upper Southern U.S. Great: "[Everybody had] a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free grace and preforeordestination, and I don't know what all” ( Mark Twain).
  • ad. Chiefly Upper Southern U.S. Very: It was powerful humid.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.
  • adj. Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense
  • adj. Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Exerting great force or power; able to produce great physical effects; strong; efficient: as, a powerful engine; a powerful blow; a powerful medicine.
  • Having great authority; puissant; potent; mighty: as, a powerful nation.
  • Characterized by great intellectual power.
  • Having great influence or moral power; cogent; efficacious.
  • Great; numerous; numerically large. Compare power, 10.
  • Synonyms Puissant, forcible, cogent, influential; vigorous, robust, sturdy.
  • Very: as, powerful good; powerful weak.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having great power or force or potency or effect
  • adj. strong enough to knock down or overwhelm
  • adj. having great influence
  • adj. (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
  • adj. displaying superhuman strength or power
  • ad. (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
  • Equivalent
    potent    puissant    ruling    muscular    regnant    all-powerful    almighty    coercive    regent    strong   
    Antonym
    powerless   
    Cross Reference
    able    forcible    influential    cogent   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    efficacious    potent    forcible    strong    mighty    intense    energetic    large    capacious   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    strong    new    mighty    effective