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Powerful

adjective

1.

Having great power or force or potency or effect. "His powerful arms" , "A powerful bomb" , "The horse's powerful kick" , "Powerful drugs" , "A powerful argument"

2.

Strong enough to knock down or overwhelm. Synonym: knock-down.

3.

Having great influence. Synonym: potent.

4.

(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful. Synonyms: brawny, hefty, muscular, sinewy. "A muscular boxer" , "Powerful arms"

5.

Displaying superhuman strength or power. Synonym: herculean.

adverb

1.

(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree. Synonyms: mightily, mighty, right. "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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"Powerful" Quotes from Famous Books

... there is a great service which you can render France," he answered me as we stopped to watch the great white waves flung aside from the ship. "France needs friends in America, great powerful friends who will help her in contracting for food and all other munitions. A beautiful woman can do much in winning those friends. You go to your uncle, who is one of those in power in a State in that fruitful valley of the Mississippi from which ...

— The Daredevil • Maria Thompson Daviess

... interests at stake, and that if at the same time each shipowner were compelled—by the socializing of production, consumption, and exchange—to belong to federated Communes, or to a hundred other associations for the satisfying of his needs, things would have a different aspect. A group of shipowners, powerful on sea, would feel weak on land, and they would be obliged to lessen their claims in order to come to terms with ...

— The Conquest of Bread • Peter Kropotkin

... the same time a friend started in to "heeze up my hope," like the "sportsman with his cutty gun," in the old song. He was bred a farmer, but a man of powerful understanding, natural good taste, and warm poetical feeling, perfectly competent to supply the wants of an imperfect or irregular education. He was a passionate admirer of field-sports, which we often ...

— The Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott

... Dauphin neither approved of the peace or the marriage, and in order to defeat both he made use of the Constable, for whom he always had an affection, to remonstrate to the King of what importance it was not to give his successor a brother so powerful as the Duke of Orleans would be with the alliance of the Emperor and those countries; the Constable came the more easily into the Dauphin's sentiments, as they were opposite to those of Madam d'Etampes, who was his declared enemy, and who vehemently wished for ...

— The Princess of Cleves • Madame de La Fayette

... affluent and technologically powerful economy - the fifth largest in the world - has become one of the slowest growing economies in the euro zone. A quick turnaround is not in the offing in the foreseeable future. Growth in 2001-03 fell short of 1%, rising to 1.7% in 2004. The modernization ...

— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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