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Powerful   /pˈaʊərfəl/   Listen
Powerful

adjective
1.
Having great power or force or potency or effect.  "His powerful arms" , "A powerful bomb" , "The horse's powerful kick" , "Powerful drugs" , "A powerful argument"
2.
Strong enough to knock down or overwhelm.  Synonym: knock-down.
3.
Having great influence.  Synonym: potent.
4.
(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful.  Synonyms: brawny, hefty, muscular, sinewy.  "A muscular boxer" , "Powerful arms"
5.
Displaying superhuman strength or power.  Synonym: herculean.
adverb
1.
(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree.  Synonyms: mightily, mighty, right.  "He's mighty tired" , "It is powerful humid" , "That boy is powerful big now" , "They have a right nice place" , "They rejoiced mightily"



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"Powerful" Quotes from Famous Books



... (3)COHERENT than the creatures of the mind; but this is no argument that they exist without the mind. They are also (4)LESS DEPENDENT ON THE SPIRIT [Note: Vide sect. xxix.—Note.], or thinking substance which perceives them, in that they are excited by the will of another and more powerful spirit; yet still they are IDEAS, and certainly no IDEA, whether faint or strong, can exist otherwise than in a mind ...
— A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge • George Berkeley
... God! with what sweetness and love He awaited that soul departed from the body! He turned the eye of mercy toward her, when she came to enter within His Side, bathed in blood which availed through the Blood of the Son of God. Thus received by God through power—powerful is He to do! the Son also, Wisdom the Word Incarnate, gave him and made him share the crucified love with which He received painful and shameful death through the obedience which he showed to the Father, for the good ...
— Letters of Catherine Benincasa • Catherine Benincasa
... the armistice, the allies had won an important victory over him; they had gained Austria over to their side, and now, at the renewal of hostilities, Austria reenforced the allies with two hundred thousand men. For nearly fourteen years Napoleon was invariably the more powerful enemy, not only on account of his military genius, but of the numerical strength and excellent organization of ...
— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach
... really very interesting," resumed Michael slowly, "because I think in that case you would see a most singular effect, an effect that has generally been achieved by all those able and powerful systems which rationalism, or the religion of the ball, has produced to lead or teach mankind. You would see, I think, that thing happen which is always the ultimate embodiment and logical outcome of ...
— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton
... even preferred the company of hunger and thirst rather than that of his Ulgenie. Not that this state of mind originated from the many lectures he had received from his wife. Ah, no, there were far more powerful reasons; but it is certain that if Mistress Ulrica had suspected that her husband's indifference arose from any other motive than the wish to escape a deserved punishment she would have, undoubtedly, increased the vigor of her tongue to such ...
— The Home in the Valley • Emilie F. Carlen


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