Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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).
- adv. Chiefly Upper Southern U.S. Very: It was powerful humid.
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.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.
- adj. mining Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense.
- adj. (Mining) Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.
WordNet 3.0
- 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
- adv. (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
Examples
“Tyler Sudley would break out, addressing the teacher, all unmindful of scholastic etiquette, a flush of pleasure rising to his swarthy cheek as he thrust back his wide black hat on his long dark hair and turned his candid gray eyes, all aglow, upon the cadaverous, ascetic preceptor, "ain't Lee-yander a-gittin 'on powerful, _powerful_ fas' with his book?”
“In reality, my word "powerful" does not do justice to the influence of Scots-Irish culture at the ballot box.”
“Rape by the powerful is an everyday hazard in Uzbekistan, again as outlined in Murder in Samarkand page 120.”
“Now that's what I call a powerful Christian sermon.”
“If you read enough Ayn Rand, your frontal lobes decay to the point where you confuse pleasing rationalizations for fact, and come to believe that grovelling worship of the powerful is the same as defending liberty.”
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“Squashing the powerful is an essential media skill, a leveling device that helps keep democracy democratic.”
“Mphahlwa also pointed a finger at what he described as powerful”
“MANN: Let me ask you about something else that we just heard from the secretary of defense who described the U.S. facing what he called a powerful and terrible enemy.”
“JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Gore will declare America's whole future is at stake in this election and will pledge to fight against what he calls powerful forces, powerful interests, and a culture of too much meanness and not enough meaning.”
“Campaigners hailed what they described as a powerful new weapon in the three-decade war against AIDS.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘powerful’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
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3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
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EN - Old Western Slang
a hog-killin' time, a lick and a promise, according to Hoyle, ace-high, all down but nine, arbuckle's, at sea, back down, balled up, bang-up, bazoo, bear sign and 212 more...
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AGRI - horse breeding
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Fauvism
Words to describe art of the fauvist movement
wild, beast, color, fauve, fauvism, fauvist, avant garde, floating, violent, outrageous, radical, dynamite and 82 more...
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Adjectives 2
Conditions
alive, better, important, careful, clever, dead, easy, famous, gifted, helpful, inexpensive, mushy and 8 more...
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Descriptive
The present, the future. Goals, wishes, hopes.
capricious, sericeous, sleek, flawless, charming, skilled, long-haired, versatile, beautiful, witty, fair, thin and 145 more...
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Prosie: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Ad...
(Given Saturday, March 4, 1865, Washington, D.C.)
Fellow-Countrymen:
At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended a...with all nations, among ourselves, a just and lastin..., cherish, achieve, to do all, for his widow and..., to care for him w..., to bind up the na..., let us strive on ..., with firmness in ..., with charity for all and 169 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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mango22's Words
avalanche, apple, arrividerci, awry, adamant, asunder, barter, beloved, calm, cataclysmic, catastrophe, coat and 143 more...
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huck finnian
ain't, stretchers, without, sivilize, hogshead, victuals, bulrushers, tolerable, goggles, middling, reckoned, who-whooing and 287 more...
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Prosie: Obama's Inaugural Address
In keeping with my other Prosies (like this one). There were a number of phrases as well as words in this speech that I found particularly compelling.
My fellow citizens: I stand here ...we did not turn b..., when we were tested, what storms may come, icy currents, virtue, hope, alarmed, depth of winter, revolution, snow, enemy, abandoned and 257 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL P
pacifistic, pacify, palatable, palaver, palliate, pallid, palpable, pamper, panacea, pandemic, pandemonium, panegyric and 209 more...
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