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1. powerful [ a ] having great power or force or potency or effect
Examples: "the most powerful government in western Europe" "his powerful arms" "a powerful bomb" "the horse's powerful kick" "powerful drugs" "a powerful argument"

Used in print:

(Musical America, LXXXI:5...)

And with what resource did Prokofieff back_up his Credo of words - with torrents of powerful music .

(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

He was also at this time , although not so interwoven in high politics and the rackets as Torrio and Capone , the most powerful and most dangerous mob leader in the Chicago underworld , the roughneck king .

(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover , how to behave , how to think about this new experience , how to exercise restraint .

(87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)

Three requirements go_with a blockade : It must be proclaimed ; the blockading force must be powerful enough to enforce it ; and it must be enforced without discrimination .

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

What had been an unmanageably powerful introject was now , despite its continuing charge of energy disconcerting to me , sufficiently within control of her ego that she could use it to show me what this introjected mother was like .

Synonyms powerful Related Terms powerless mighty potent powered regnant muscular coercive puissant regent compelling all-powerful almighty strong effective potent power

2. powerful [ a ] strong enough to knock down or overwhelm
Examples: "a knock-down blow"

Used in print:

(87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)

Three requirements go_with a blockade : It must be proclaimed ; the blockading force must be powerful enough to enforce it ; and it must be enforced without discrimination .

(Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)

Cobb unleashed a single powerful jab that sent Gyp reeling wildly and crashing down with a whining groan .

Synonyms powerful knock-down Related Terms strong

3. powerful [ a ] having the power to influence or convince
Examples: "a cogent analysis of the problem" "potent arguments"

Used in print:

(The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)

It is always a temptation for a religious organization , especially a powerful or dominant one , to impose through the clenched_fist of the law its creedal viewpoint upon others .

(Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)

Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New_Testament .

Synonyms potent powerful cogent Related Terms influential

4. powerful [ a ] (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
Examples: "a hefty athlete" "a muscular boxer" "powerful arms"

Used in print:

(Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)

Neither was he very powerful of build .

Synonyms powerful hefty sinewy muscular brawny Related Terms strong

5. powerful [ r ] (Southern regional intensive) very
Examples: "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"

Synonyms mighty right powerful Related Terms intensifier

6. powerful [ a ] displaying superhuman strength or power
Examples: "herculean exertions"

Synonyms herculean powerful Related Terms superhuman

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