Powerful
['paʊəfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['paʊɚfl]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
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Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Mighty, potent, active, forcible, puissant, potential.[2]. Vigorous, robust, sturdy, strong, able-bodied.[3]. Efficacious, effective, cogent, valid.
Typist: Steven
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Strong, potent, puissant, masterful, mighty,[See STRONG]
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Examples
- The large and powerful engines on the Great Western Railway have, however, only two driving wheels, which are 8 feet in diameter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This made a powerful armament. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Georgiana, as if the supplication were being squeezed out of her by powerful compression. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I got some data and made up my mind that what was needed was a very powerful engine for its weight, in small compass. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A wife, a modest young lady, with the purely appreciative, unambitious abilities of her sex, is sure to think her husband's mind powerful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But it was no longer all-powerful, because its nature made it conservative and inadaptable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The old lady sorrowfully shakes her head, and taking one of his powerful hands, lays it lovingly upon her shoulder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Miss Bates's powerful, argumentative mind might have strengthened yours. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He wondered if she did not begin to see what a powerful engine it was, and how nearly it had crushed her. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- God often defends the powerful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- With your powerful mind you must feel independent of help, of advice, of society. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Now she realised that this was the world of powerful, underworld men who spent most of their time in the darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill with his powerful magnifying lens. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- She is still all-powerful here, however, I replied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- A horrid scream of bestial rage broke from the banth as he felt warm flesh beneath his powerful talons. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Only the most powerful electric furnaces are capable of performing this work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The republics of Genoa and Pisa were very powerful in the Middle Ages. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Be the First Born gods or mortals, they are a powerful race, and we are as fast in their clutches as though we were already dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was accomplished by means of powerful hydraulic presses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We are all familiar with the less powerful ones which are universally used on automobiles for night driving and in a multitude of other every-day practices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There was an accumulation of powerful force in the room, powerful and destructive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And what numberless and powerful causes tend to destroy these rare natures! Plato. The Republic.
- Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I mean, that human affections and sympathies have a most powerful hold on you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A powerful business corporation still preserves its industrial tradition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Holmes had picked up the powerful air-gun from the floor, and was examining its mechanism. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It can't be very powerful medicine. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Nay, then, said Wamba, I will pray you for a close sight of that same horn that hath so powerful a breath. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The work done by the one is equal to the work done by the other, but the man is more powerful, because the time required for a given task is very important. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The officer drew a powerful glass from his desk and examined all three specimens carefully, making notations meanwhile upon a pad of paper. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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