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[ adjective ] having great power or force or potency or effect
Examples "the most powerful government in western Europe" "his powerful arms" "a powerful bomb" "the horse's powerful kick" "powerful drugs" "a powerful argument" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)And with what resource did Prokofieff back_up his Credo of words - with torrents of powerful music . (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)He was also at this time , although not so interwoven in high politics and the rackets as Torrio and Capone , the most powerful and most dangerous mob leader in the Chicago underworld , the roughneck king . (Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover , how to behave , how to think about this new experience , how to exercise restraint . (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)Three requirements go_with a blockade : It must be proclaimed ; the blockading force must be powerful enough to enforce it ; and it must be enforced without discrimination . (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)What had been an unmanageably powerful introject was now , despite its continuing charge of energy disconcerting to me , sufficiently within control of her ego that she could use it to show me what this introjected mother was like . |
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[ adjective ] strong enough to knock down or overwhelm
Synonyms Examples "a knock-down blow" Used in print (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)Three requirements go_with a blockade : It must be proclaimed ; the blockading force must be powerful enough to enforce it ; and it must be enforced without discrimination . (Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)Cobb unleashed a single powerful jab that sent Gyp reeling wildly and crashing down with a whining groan . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] having the power to influence or convince
Examples "a cogent analysis of the problem" "potent arguments" Used in print (The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)It is always a temptation for a religious organization , especially a powerful or dominant one , to impose through the clenched_fist of the law its creedal viewpoint upon others . (Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New_Testament . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
Examples "a hefty athlete" "a muscular boxer" "powerful arms" Used in print (Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)Neither was he very powerful of build . Related terms |
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[ adverb ] (Southern regional intensive) very
Examples "the baby is mighty cute" "he's mighty tired" "it is powerful humid" "that boy is powerful big now" "they have a right nice place" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] displaying superhuman strength or power
Synonyms Examples "herculean exertions" Related terms |
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