powerful

Adjective

• Possessing great strength, influence, or effect.
• 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"

Adjective Satellite

• strong enough to knock down or overwhelm
• having great influence
• (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
  • "powerful arms"
• displaying superhuman strength or power

Adverb

• (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
  • "it is powerful humid"
  • "that boy is powerful big now"

Adj

• Having, or capable of exerting, power or influence.
• Leading to many or important deductions.
• Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.
• Being a powerful number.

Adv

• very; extremely

Examples

• a powerful set of postulates
• a powerful theorem
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Synonyms

brawny, hefty, herculean, knock-down, mightily, mighty, muscular, potent, right, sinewy, forceful, mightful, powersome, squareful, strengthful, strong

Antonyms

powerless, strengthless

Related Words

strong

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