Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or capable of exerting power.
- adjective Effective or potent.
- adjective Chiefly Upper Southern US Great.
- adverb Very.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Very: as, powerful good; powerful weak.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense
- adjective (Mining) Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having, or
capable ofexerting power ,potency orinfluence . - adjective mining
Large ;capacious ; said ofveins ofore .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having great power or force or potency or effect
- adjective strong enough to knock down or overwhelm
- adjective having great influence
- adjective (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
- adjective displaying superhuman strength or power
- adverb (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
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Examples
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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?"
The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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In reality, my word "powerful" does not do justice to the influence of Scots-Irish culture at the ballot box.
Dave "Mudcat" Saunders: Born Fighting Reveals the Invisible Ink on the Pages of American History Dave "Mudcat" Saunders 2011
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In reality, my word "powerful" does not do justice to the influence of Scots-Irish culture at the ballot box.
Dave "Mudcat" Saunders: Born Fighting Reveals the Invisible Ink on the Pages of American History Dave "Mudcat" Saunders 2011
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In reality, my word "powerful" does not do justice to the influence of Scots-Irish culture at the ballot box.
Dave "Mudcat" Saunders: Born Fighting Reveals the Invisible Ink on the Pages of American History Dave "Mudcat" Saunders 2011
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In reality, my word "powerful" does not do justice to the influence of Scots-Irish culture at the ballot box.
Dave "Mudcat" Saunders: Born Fighting Reveals the Invisible Ink on the Pages of American History Dave "Mudcat" Saunders 2011
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In reality, my word "powerful" does not do justice to the influence of Scots-Irish culture at the ballot box.
Dave "Mudcat" Saunders: Born Fighting Reveals the Invisible Ink on the Pages of American History Dave "Mudcat" Saunders 2011
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In reality, my word "powerful" does not do justice to the influence of Scots-Irish culture at the ballot box.
Dave "Mudcat" Saunders: Born Fighting Reveals the Invisible Ink on the Pages of American History Dave "Mudcat" Saunders 2011
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Rape by the powerful is an everyday hazard in Uzbekistan, again as outlined in Murder in Samarkand page 120.
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Rape by the powerful is an everyday hazard in Uzbekistan, again as outlined in Murder in Samarkand page 120.
Archive 2007-09-23 2007
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Now that's what I call a powerful Christian sermon.
Archive 2009-01-04 2009
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