Mighty
['maɪtɪ] or ['maɪti]
Definition
(adj.) having or showing great strength or force or intensity; 'struck a mighty blow'; 'the mighty logger Paul Bunyan'; 'the pen is mightier than the sword'- Bulwer-Lytton .
(adv.) (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree; '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'; 'they rejoiced mightily'.
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Definition
(n.) Possessing might; having great power or authority.
(n.) Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
(n.) Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc.
(n.) A warrior of great force and courage.
(adv.) In a great degree; very.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Strong, powerful, robust, vigorous, sturdy, puissant, courageous, valiant, valorous, bold, able, capable.[2]. Vast, enormous, immense, huge, stupendous, monstrous, Cyclopean, Herculean, very great.[3]. Violent, vehement, impetuous.[4]. Forcible, efficacious, effective.
ad. [Colloquial.] Very.
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Examples
- Had they not better throw these bodies to the plant men and then return to their quarters, O Mighty One? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There was but a single way, and that led through the mighty, towering trees upon our right. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- As he saw his mate go down he crouched, and, with a low snarl, sprang upon the captain crushing him to his knees with a single mighty blow. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- When the mighty luminary approached within a few degrees of the tempest-tossed horizon, suddenly, a wonder! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yet the force of this mighty giant is so completely under control, and may be brought to act so gently, as scarcely to crack a nut placed to receive its fall. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Though to bless and restore his mother, not his father, was the errand of this baby, its power was mighty to do it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But, Aunt Chloe, I'm getting mighty hungry, said George. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They are _mighty_ onpleasant; but, as I manages business, I generally avoids 'em, sir. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- When all was completed the great staging was removed, and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge-faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Of all that mighty host, none but the two faithful spies ever lived to set their feet in the Promised Land. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Tarzan is mightiest amongst you for Tarzan is no ape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The granddaughter of the greatest and mightiest of the red jeddaks has asked you. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But our State, while she remains true to her principles, will be in very deed the mightiest of Hellenic states. Plato. The Republic.
- Were not the mightiest men of the olden times kings? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Certainly knowledge is a faculty, and the mightiest of all faculties. Plato. The Republic.
- I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Sir Leicester Dedlock is only a baronet, but there is no mightier baronet than he. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But my hero is the mightier of the two. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A mightier power than the human was at hand to destroy our plans or to achieve the work we avoided. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It has long been said that The pen is mightier than the sword, but from present indications, it is proper to add that the typewriter is mightier than the pen. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The pen is mightier than the sword, rejoined Justinian sententiously. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The cottage of my protectors had been the only school in which I had studied human nature; but this book developed new and mightier scenes of action. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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