Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having absolute power; all-powerful: almighty God.
- adj. Informal Great; extreme: an almighty din.
- adv. Informal Used as an intensive: almighty scared.
- n. God. Used with the.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Possessing all power; omnipotent; of unlimited might; of boundless sufficiency.
- Great; extreme; overpowering.
Wiktionary
- adj. Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible.
- adj. Great; extreme; terrible.
- adj. Having very great power, influence, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible.
- adj. Great; extreme; terrible.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having unlimited power
- n. terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
Etymologies
- Middle English almighti, from Old English ealmihtig : eall, all; see all + mihtig, mighty (from miht, might; see might1).
Examples
““In the name of almighty God, there will be no surplus and prices will not fall,” intoned the Iranian oil minister.”
“For them, driving a truck while intoxicated was a much larger offense than blaspheming the name of almighty God.1”
“But if we conceive of a providence - a source even of the immeasurable suffering inflicted by, and on, mankind - what sort of almighty is it that we - like the tramps - are to meet somewhere, some day?”
“It reminds us of the saying of the Scots Minister to his congregation that "The almighty is obliged to do many things in his offeecial capacity which he would scor-rn to do as a private individual.”
“Using Robertson's thinking, for the U.S. to be given a pass by God in its dealing with Haiti, would also suggest the almighty is a proponent of realpolitik.”
Byron Williams: Robertson Still Making His Own Deals with the Devil
“Consider that the Supreme Being, the Source of All—who as Big God has at times been described as almighty, angry, and judgmental—can actually appear to us in the loving form we desire.”
“Like Bernstein, Lowell uses his text to address God directly, but in place of Bernstein's defiance is a wry empathy: twice, Lowell calls the almighty "poor little Father.”
“It was front page news that a Canadian Prime Minister might actually call the almighty American President out on his lack of manners.”
“Now there's a gang -- the life-savin 'crew, I mean -- that does what you and me would call almighty hard work and git next to nothin' for it.”
“This was to be done by the so-called almighty torpedo.”
Sketches From My Life
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘almighty’.
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Words Associated With Jesus
Words that indentify Jesus and His Salvation to those who seek Him.
hope, grace, love, faith, salvation, truth, eternity, heaven, god, holy spirit, bible, scripture and 191 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone has to list them.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about adverbs here.
Reesetee's list Conjunctive Adv...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2243 more...
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Imbible Code ✞
Christian word branding; common English word-associatives connected to Bible terminology or scripture.
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My Little Phonies
Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.
juggernaught, flamboyant, cuddly maggot, astrobleme, agroof, windburn, poshlost, crucifer, feedbag, dunderwhelp, nebelwerfer, bliss ninny and 445 more...
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Flossational
Braggartly professed super-abilities.
unsurpassability, indisputability, almighty, inconfutability, ineffability, uninterruptibility, superfashionability, indefatigability, imperturbability, irrefragability, insuperability, inalienability and 40 more...

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