powerful
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Adjective (5)
- having great power or force or potency or effect“the most powerful government in western Europe”“his powerful arms”“a powerful bomb”“the horse's powerful kick”“powerful drugs”“a powerful argument”Opposite powerlessSimilar mighty, potent, muscular, regnant, compelling, regent, puissant, coercive +1 moreRelates to power, powerfulnessSee also effective, potent, strong
- strong enough to knock down or overwhelm“a knock-down blow”Synonyms: knock-downOpposite weakSimilar strong
- having great influenceSynonyms: potentOpposite uninfluentialSimilar influential
- (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful“a hefty athlete”“a muscular boxer”“powerful arms”Synonyms: brawnyheftymuscularsinewyOpposite weakSimilar strongSee also swole
- displaying superhuman strength or power“herculean exertions”Synonyms: herculeanOpposite subhumanSimilar superhuman
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Translations
Adjective having great power or strength
- Spanish
- poderoso
- French
- puissant
- German
- mächtig
- Italian
- potente
- Portuguese
- poderoso
- Turkish
- güçlü
- Russian
- могу́чий mogúčij
- Arabic
- قَوِيّ qawiyy
- Chinese
- 强大 qiángdà
- Japanese
- 強い tsuyoi
24 more languages
- Dutch
- machtig
- Polish
- potężny
- Swedish
- mäktig
- Greek
- ισχυρός ischyrós
- Korean
- 강하다 ganghada
- Indonesian
- kuat
- Vietnamese
- mạnh mẽ
- Hungarian
- erőteljes
- Portuguese (PT)
- poderoso
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 強力 qiánglì
- Catalan
- potent
- Czech
- mocný
- Danish
- mægtig
- Esperanto
- potenca
- Estonian
- võimas
- Finnish
- voimakas
- Georgian
- ძლიერი ʒlieri
- Icelandic
- voldugur
- Latvian
- spēcīgs
- Norwegian
- mektig
- Romanian
- puternic
- Scottish Gaelic
- cumhachdach
- Serbo-Croatian
- jak
- Yiddish
- מעכטיג mekhtig
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.
The powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.— William Shakespeare
2. Mining Large; capacious; — said of veins of ore.
Synonyms: Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense.
— Pow′wb-a1′>′er·ful·ly, adverb — Pow′wb-a1′>′er·ful·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<language> A language combining functional programming and logic programming, using "angelic Powerdomains".
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