Potent
['pəʊt(ə)nt] or ['potnt]
Definition
(adj.) having a strong physiological or chemical effect; 'a potent toxin'; 'potent liquor'; 'a potent cup of tea', 'a stiff drink' .
(adj.) (of a male) capable of copulation .
(adj.) having or wielding force or authority; 'providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons' .
(adj.) having great influence .
Checker: Nicole--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
(a.) Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
(a.) Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
(n.) A prince; a potentate.
(n.) A staff or crutch.
(n.) One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
Typist: Louis
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Powerful, mighty, forcible, puissant, strong, efficacious, cogent, influential.
Editor: Solomon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Powerful, efficacious, effective, active, strong, energetic
ANT:Weak, impotent, inefficient, ineffective, inactive, fruitless, inoperative
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Definition
adj. strong: powerful in a physical or a moral sense: having great authority or influence.—n. a prince potentate.—ns. Pō′tence power: (her.) a marking of the shape of 
: in horology the stud or counterbridge forming a step for the lower pivot of a verge (also Pō′tance); Pō′tency power: authority: influence; Pō′tentate one who possesses power: a prince.—adj. Pōten′tial powerful efficacious: existing in possibility not in reality: (gram.) expressing power possibility liberty or obligation.—n. anything that may be possible: a possibility: the name for a function in the mathematical theory of attractions: the power of a charge or current of electricity to do work.—n. Pōtential′ity.—adv. Pōten′tially.—n. Pōten′tiary a person invested with power or influence.—v.t. Pōten′tiate to give power to.—n. Pō′tentite a blasting substance.—adv. Pō′tently.—n. Pō′tentness.—Potential energy the power of doing work possessed by a body in virtue of the stresses which result from its position relatively to other bodies.
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Examples
- No less potent enchantment could avail to work this miracle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The study of apparatus for obtaining more perfect vacua was unceasingly carried on, for Edison realized that in this there lay a potent factor of ultimate success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No down was ever softer, no elixir more potent! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her sensibility was potent enough! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- How well he knew Hermione, as she sat there, erect and silent and somewhat bemused, and yet so potent, so powerful! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He grasped it, then touched the perilous, potent fingers with his lips. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yea, and from a still more potent influence: the worn castaways were to see the blessed land again! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He seemed born anew, and virtue, more potent than Medean alchemy, endued him with health and strength. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Summer advanced, and, crowned with the sun's potent rays, plague shot her unerring shafts over the earth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To Gudrun, however, it was potent and half-repulsive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The two big parties have had to preserve a superficial homogeneity; and a platitude is more potent than an issue. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What, if the more potent of these fraternal deities should obtain dominion over it? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Can the principle of selection, which we have seen is so potent in the hands of man, apply under nature? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He knew what it was to be awake and potent in that other basic mind, the deepest physical mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This face, potent in the majesty of its traits, shed down on her hope, fondness, delight. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You think them more profound and potent than they are. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Have I not often told you who was almost as little, as pale, as suffering as you, and yet potent as a giant and brave as a lion? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Paul: which potent personage was now visible in the person of the second gentleman. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Example is notoriously more potent than precept. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He will sacrifice all to his long-framed resolves, she said: natural affection and feelings more potent still. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- So rife and potent was the fever in Bleeding Heart Yard, that Mr Pancks's rent-days caused no interval in the patients. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A throng, too, enclosed the rector of Briarfield--twenty or more pressed round him; and no parson was ever more potent in a circle than old Helstone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Your influence, sir, is evidently potent with him: he will never set you at defiance or wilfully injure you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And yet the black looks of her eyes made Gerald feel drowned in some potent darkness that almost frightened him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Peering into the invisible little world, the infinite secrets of microcosm have yielded their fruitful and potent knowledge of bacteria and cell growth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- To that all-potent and all-merciful drug I am indebted for a respite of many years from my sentence of death. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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