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Definition: Mighty |
MightyAdjective1. 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. Adverb1. (Southern regional intensive) very; "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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mighty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Mighty. Never use mighty in the sense of very, or exceedingly. It is not only inappropriate but inelegant. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: MightySynonyms: powerful (adv), right (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute). |
Greatly; Adjective: much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely. | |
Hope | At spes non fracta; ego spem prietio non emo; un Dieu est ma fiance; " hope! thou nurse of young desire "; in hoc signo spes mea; in hoc signo vinces; la speranza e il pan de miseri; l'esperance est le songe d'un homme eveille; " the mighty hopes that make us men"; " the sickening pang of hope deferred ". |
Insolence | Adjective: insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown. |
Learning | Phrase: "a lumber-house of books in every head"; ancora imparo! "hold high converse with the mighty dead"; "lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod". |
Pride | Supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant; unblushing. |
Haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride. | |
Size | Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite. |
Adjective: large, big; great; considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent. | |
Strength | Adjective: strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid. |
Vegetable | Phrase: "green-robed senators of mighty woods"; "this is the forest primeval". |
Writing | Phrase: audacter et sincere; le style est l'homme meme; "nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill"; scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons; "that mighty instrument of little men"; "the pen became a clarion". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mighty |
| English words defined with "mighty": Armipotent ♦ Bellipotent ♦ Cross potent ♦ develop, Down on ♦ Forcible entry and detainer ♦ Gigantean ♦ heave, heaving ♦ Mightful, Mighties ♦ powerful ♦ right ♦ tear. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mighty": abd, Abracadabra, Adino, Adoni-zedec, Alla Akbar, Ascapart ♦ Cat may look at a King, Chattelin's ♦ DUEL ♦ Eliada, Erudition ♦ FOREORDINATION ♦ Gods ♦ Hagarene, HERCULES, High Ropes, Humber ♦ Kai-Omurs, Kettle, King of Yvetot ♦ Locusts ♦ Mount of the congregation ♦ Purler ♦ ROBERT'S MEN, ROOSEVELT, Rumolt, Rykell, Rython ♦ Sons of the Mighty, Storm in a Teapot ♦ Young. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mighty": mightily. (references) |
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Screenplays | Goin' through some mighty rough country tomorrow, you'd better have some beans (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; writing credit: B. Traven; John Huston) May our feet be swift; may our bats be mighty; may our balls be plentiful (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele) Yes, oh mighty evil one (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements) You think you're so high and mighty, when really it's only abomniable conceit (A Room with a View; writing credit: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. based on the novel by E.M. Forster.) Can you think of one good reason why I, a strange man, should be interested in proposing to you, a mighty strange woman and at this hour of the day (Brigadoon; writing credit: Alan Jay Lerner) | |
Lyrics | You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn (Mighty Quinn (Bob Dylan); performing artist: Manfred Mann) This one is mighty hot, (Blow Your Mind; performing artist: Baha Men) Tonic sounds might mighty good to me. (You Me and The Bottle Makes Three Tonight; performing artist: Big Daddy) 'Cause we got a mighty convoy (Convoy; performing artist: C.W. MCCALL) You will find mighty arms reaching for you. (Somewhere Down The Road; performing artist: Faith Hill) | |
Clever | All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Mighty One (1971) Mighty Jack (1968) Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor (1967) The Mighty Heroes (1966) | |
Song Titles | Mighty Quinn, The (performing artist: The Hollies) Mighty Quinn, The (performing artist: Manfred Mann) The Mighty Quinn (performing artist: Manfred Mann) Mighty Love, Part 1 (performing artist: Spinners) | |
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![]() | The ribs of a once mighty ship bare on the "Graveyard of the Atlantic.". Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | A mighty cedar at Fort Clatsop National Memorial on the Oregon coast. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
![]() | ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. Mighty oaks and spanish moss, remnants of the ante-bellum South at Airy Hall Plantation. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). | ![]() | And all those dead of Belgium and all that mighty procession of the slain in Armenia--how if all these hosts still live?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The spirit of Tweed is still mighty : and even yet you don't know what you are going to do about it. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | May his pen be as mighty as his sword. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | It's mighty heavy, Uncle, but you can't put it down now / Gib Crockett. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Fallen of the mighty conflict--graves of Confederate soldiers, Charleston, S. Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | In the heart of the mighty Andes--Oroya Ry. bridge in the sublime Infurnillo gorge, Peru. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. A hot one for Hitler. This worker heats the rivets which go into Uncle Sam's mighty warships being produced in a large Eastern shipyard. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Amsterdam Harbour" by Frank P.J. Van Haalen Commentary: "Mighty cranes at the harbor of Amsterdam." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Like dreams, small creeks grow into mighty rivers. |
Dante (Alighieri) | A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark. |
John Dryden | Mighty things from small beginnings grow. |
Lucan | Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. |
Pope Pius Ii | A mighty thing is eloquence . . . nothing so much rules the world. |
Publilius Syrus | The empire of custom is most mighty. |
Samuel Johnson | This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive. |
Thomas de Quincey | Thou has the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty Opium! |
William Wordsworth | The ocean is a mighty harmonist. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Thus people, riches, trade, power, change their stations, flourishing mighty cities come to ruin, and prove in times neglected desolate corners, whilst other unfrequented places grow into populous countries, filled with wealth and inhabitants. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | When the designs of wicked men or the aggressive urge of mighty States dissolve over large areas the frame of civilized society, humble folk are confronted with difficulties with which they cannot cope. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1921) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was a mysterious and mighty phantom, visibly standing by the side of the invisible spectre of the Bastille |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | That the Earl of Richmond Is with a mighty power landed at Milford Is colder tidings, yet they must be told |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six and thirty moons past |
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Business | Mighty River Power produces 13% of this country's electricity generation via nine hydro stations on the Waikato River in the North Island. (references) | |
For most of these plans, the mighty state-owned Korean Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), Korea’s power generation, transmission, and distribution monopoly, was left untouched, an entity too important and symbolic to risk to market forces. (references) | ||
During the latter part of 1999, France’s Sithe (the first foreign firm to buy a generator in Korea) sided with the LG Group, Belgium’s mighty Tractebel joined forces with Korea’s Samchully, British Gas with the Daesung Group, and the US’ Enron with the SK Group. (references) | ||
Economic History | Laos | Laos traces its first recorded history and its origins as a unified state to the emergence of the Kingdom of Lan Xang (literally, "million elephants") in 1353. Under the rule of King Fa Ngum, the wealthy and mighty kingdom covered much of what today is Thailand and Laos. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. Romach Pute |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Even descending to this low and narrow view of the mighty question, all such calculations are at fault. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. |
Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 | But we have faith that we shall not prove false to the memories of the men of the mighty past. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | At the same time, we are producing power at Grand Coulee and at Bonneville which played a mighty part in winning the war and which will found a great peacetime industry in the Northwest. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The Atlantic Community grows, not like a volcanic mountain, by one mighty explosion, but like a coral reef, from the accumulating activity of all. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Under this covenant of justice, liberty, and union we have become a nation--prosperous, great, and mighty. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In the coming years, as a mighty nation we will continue to pursue peace. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | So we go forward today, a nation still mighty in its youth and powerful in its purpose. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We will stand mighty for peace and freedom, and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Mighty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.64% of the time. "Mighty" is used about 884 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.64% | 872 | 8,141 |
| Adverb (general) | 1.36% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 884 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mighty" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mighty | Last name | 130 | 55,452 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "mighty". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Amzi | N/A | Biblical | Mighty |
| Jehucal | N/A | Biblical | Mighty |
| Jucal | N/A | Biblical | Mighty |
| Lael | N/A | Biblical | To the mighty |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "mighty": be high and mighty ♦ be mighty ♦ become mighty ♦ high and mighty ♦ it is mighty easy ♦ mighty Mouse. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mighty": mighty-vanned. | |
Ending with "mighty": all-mighty, once-mighty, over-mighty. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mighty duck | 1,608 | mighty mite | 58 |
anaheim mighty duck | 705 | the mighty cloud of joy | 56 |
mighty wind | 680 | anahiem mighty duck | 52 |
mighty morphin power ranger | 493 | casey mighty | 48 |
mighty mouse | 480 | mighty morphin power ranger movie | 47 |
mighty mighty bosstones | 355 | mighty morphin picture power ranger | 47 |
mighty duck movie | 151 | mighty mule | 45 |
bruce mighty | 131 | d2 the mighty duck | 42 |
mighty fax | 108 | mighty quinn | 42 |
the mighty | 100 | mighty sparrow | 39 |
the mighty thor | 95 | mighty duck logo | 39 |
high mighty | 90 | mighty movie wind | 36 |
1090 mighty | 89 | mighty duck picture | 35 |
mighty mouse picture | 79 | lyrics mighty wind | 35 |
mighty max | 77 | mitsubishi mighty max | 34 |
mighty mighty bosstones lyrics | 71 | hero mighty | 34 |
freak the mighty | 67 | mighty mule gate opener | 34 |
d3 the mighty duck | 66 | mighty duck hockey | 34 |
ticket to the mighty duck | 65 | mighty mouse pic | 33 |
mighty joe young | 61 | mighty morphin power ranger toy | 33 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mighty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i madh (bally, big, black, bouncing, capacious, capital, chuckle, chunking, close, grand, great, gross, intense, large, lumping, major, massive, pelting, thumping, vast, vasty, voluminous, whacking, whaling), i gjerë (ample, broad, broadminded, capacious, champaign, commodious, expanded, extensive, far flung, far reaching, hospitable, large, large scale, liberal, massive, rangy, roomy, spacious, splay, sweeping, vast, vasty, wide), i fuqishëm (able bodied, forcible, full-blooded, green, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, husky, lusty, marrowy, orotund, potent, potential, powerful, racy, red blooded, robust, sound, spanking, stalwart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, violent). (various references) | |
Arabic | عزيز (powerfull), ممتاز (admirable, banner, best, bonny, boss, brave, choice, clipping, cool, dandy, deluxe, distingue, distinguished, ducky, elegant, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, extra, famous, fancy, fine, first class, first rate, first-string, noble, of first degree, outstanding, premium, prime, select, splendid, star, stellar, super, superb, superior, swell, thoroughbred, thumbs up, tiptop, top notch, vintage, wizard), هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, immense, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, stupendous, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wicked, wide), قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), قدير (capable, competent, potent, qualified), واسع (ample, broad, capacious, colossal, extensive, fair, far flung, generous, immense, large, oceanic, rich, spacious, wide, widish), عظيم (bestead, bulky, eminent, fantastic, gigantic, grand, great, magnificent, majestic, major, mogul, sensational, sizable, sublime, terrific), ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), إستثنائي (especial, exceptional, exceptive, extraneous, extraordinary, freak, freaked, out of the ordinary, particular, phenomenal, premium, prodigious, rare, remarkable, singular, special, terrific, thundering, uncommon, unusual), رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, sightly, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, splendid, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), важен (consequential, dignified, fatal, grave, importable, important, magisterial, major, material, necessitous, newsy, pompous, pontifical, portentous, prominent, sage, serious, significant, solemn, sounding, staple, substantial, top-line, weighty), огромен (enormous, formidable, gargantuan, giantlike, herculean, howling, huge, mammoth, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, oversize, planetary, portentous, prodigious, slashing, super, terrible, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unwieldy, vast, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), мощен (forceful, main, massive, powerful, vigorous), могъщ (potent, powerful), много голям (astronomic, astronomical, exceeding, incredible, king size, whacking). (various references) | |
Chinese | 强大 (formidable, Powerfully), 強勢 , 偉大 (great, large). (various references) | |
Czech | mohutný (big, bulky, hulking, large, strong, vehement, vibrant, violent), mocný (forceful, formidable, potent, potential, powerful, strong, virtuous), moc (authority, badly, clout, enormously, force, forcefulness, might, much, potency, power, strength, sway, too, very), strašnì (abominably, awfully, badly, fearfully, hellishly, horribly, infernally, with a vengeance), silný (bad, big, boisterous, good, hard, heady, heavy, hefty, high, large, lusty, muscular, potent, powerful, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stiff, stocky, stout, strong, sturdy, thick, tough, valid, vigorous, violent), impozantní (commanding, formidable, imposing, impressive, stately). (various references) | |
Farsi | مقتدر (Authoritative, Dominant), نیرومند (Frank, Hale, Main, Nervy, Potent, Prolific, Rugged, Stout, Strong, Valiant, Vigorous), قوی (Boisterous, Drastic, Fort, Hard, Hefty, Intense, Irresistible, Lusty, Overtone, Potent, Stalwart, Stark, Stocky, Strong, Swith, Valid, Vigorous), توانا (Able, Authoritative, Capable), زورمند (Vigorous), بزرگ (Adult, Arch, Big, Bulky, Egregious, Enormous, Extensive, Extra, Grand, Grave, Great, Gross, Headman, Jumbo, Large, Lofty, Majestic, Major, Massive, Sizable, Sizeable, Swith, Vast, Voluminous). (various references) | |
Finnish | mahtava (great, high, powerful), voimallinen (forceful, potent, powerful), voimakas (acute, forcible, intense, intensive, powerful, strong, substantial, vigorous). (various references) | |
French | majestueux, magnifique, sacrément, sacré, rudement, puissant, imposant, formidable, extrêmement, considérable, énorme. (various references) | |
German | mächtig (heavy, heroic, heroically, jolly, massive, mightily, potent, powerful, puissant, puissantly, spanking, strong, terrific, terrifically, thick, tremendous, tremendously), gewaltig (colossal, enormous, epic, formidable, grand, heroic, huge, hugely, immense, massive, mightily, monumental, mountainous, mountainously, portentous, powerful, prodigious, ravenous, resounding, rude, shattering, towering, tremendous, vast, vastly, violent, walloping). (various references) | |
Greek | ισχυρόσ (forceful, hefty, influential, potent, powerful, puissant, strong, sturdy), ισχυρός (forceful, powerful, stiff), δυνατόσ (feasibly, forceful, intense, lusty, muscular, possible, potent, powerful, practicable, smacking, splitting, strong, vigorous, virile), δυνατός (powerful, strong, swingeing, vigorous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תקיף (assertive, determined, emphatic, forceful, peremptory, powerful, resolute, vehement), שגיב (exalted, strong, sublime), עזיז (powerful, strong), עזוז (brave, courageous, heroic, might, power, strength), עצום (essence, force, gigantic, heavy, huge, immense, massive, strength, thundering, tremendous, vast, walloping, whacking, whopping), עז (cordial, fervent, fierce, goat, intense, powerful, strong, tearing), איתן (cast iron, firm, immovable, perennial, permanent, solid, steady, strong, sturdy, substantial), חזק (cast iron, firm, forceful, forcible, forte, hard, intense, intensive, potent, powerful, stiff, strong, tough), אדיר (glorious, great, noble, powerful, splendid), כל יכול (almighty, factotum, jack of all trades, omnipotent), כביר (enormous, grand, huge, immense, stupendous, terrific, thundering, tremendous), גדול (augmentation, big, breed, breeding, development, grand, great, growth, high, increment, large, raising, step up, upbringing, whopping), רבתי (capital, great, large), רב עצמה, סגיב. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tekintélyes (considerable, prestigious, respectable, stately, substantial, tidy), igen (ay, aye, greatly, high, I don't mind, mightily, passing, quite, the odds are that, very, very much, yea, yeah, yep, yes), hatalmas (ample, enormous, giant, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, herculean, huge, monumental, overpowering, powerful, smashing, Titanic, vast), erõs (fast, intense, lusty, massive, muscular, potent, powerful, robust, severe, sound, stark, strong, sturdy, swingeing, well knit), erős (brawny, drastic, forceful, gross, have a kick in it, have plenty of beef, husky, lusty, mighty limb, muscular, nippy, pithy, robustic, rugged, shrewd, sinewy, stalwart, stiff, that's going beyond a joke, thewy, vehement), bőséges (abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, exuberant, fat, full, gorge, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, redundant, rife). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kuat (dashing, potent, powerful, sturdy). (various references) | |
Italian | molto (a great deal of, a great many, a great quantity of, a lot of, deep, extremely, far, far off, great, greatly, hard, heavily, highly, jolly, long, lots of, many, much, plenty, pretty, quite, sight, sorely, strongly, very, very much, widely), potente (big, cogent, effective, massive, potent, powerful), possente (powerful, puissant), poderoso (enormous, powerful, strong, towering, tremendous), forte (aloud, big, brawny, deep, Doughty, fast, fastness, forceful, Fort, forte, hard, hardly, heavy, hefty, high, hot, keen, living, loud, loudly, nervous, nervy, potent, puissant, racy, robust, rugged, severe, short, shrewd, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, vigorous), estremamente (extremely, highly, most). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 強い (potent, powerful, strong). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょうだい (bridge abutment, brother and sister, dresser, Kyoto University, older brother and younger sister, older sister and younger brother, powerful, siblings, sisters), つよい (potent, powerful, strong), いっきとうせん (matchless). (various references) | |
Korean | 강대한. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | muito (a good deal, a great deal of, a lot, a lot of, awfully, deadly, exceedingly, greatly, highly, jolly, much, passing, plaguy, plenty, precious, quite, rare, ripping, sight, so, too, too much, very, very much), potente (keen, potent, powerful), possante (powerful, vigorous), poderoso (masterful, overpowering, potent, powerful, puissant, sovereign), forte (accomplished, acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, fort, forte, fortress, full-blooded, hale, hard, heavy, hefty, high, high-hearted, intense, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, manly, masculine, masterful, nappy, penetrating, pithy, potent, presidio, racy, red-blooded, robust, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, swingeing, telling, tough, two-fisted, unfailing, vehement, venturous, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), extremamente (all, almighty, deeply, enormously, exceedingly, extremely, immensely, mightily, mortally, parlous, passing, plaguy, precious, rare, right, sorely, too, very, violently). (various references) | |
Romanian | mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), mãreţ (aerial, August, brilliant, grand, grandiose, kingly, loftily, lofty, magnificent, magnificently, majestic, palatial, princely, proud, splendid, stately, sumptuous, unearthly), zdravãn (awfully, healthy, sane, sinewy, sound, soundly, sturdy, terrible, vigorous, whole), tare (adamant, adamantine, badly, crusty, deeply, double, durable, fast, fierce, firm, firmly, greatly, hard, hollow, intense, intensely, lasting, leathery, loud, loudly, potent, powerful, rigid, robust, rocky, solid, spanking, stalwart, steady, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, sturdy, to the echo, tough, unflinching, unflinchingly, vehement, vigorous, violent), puternic (acute, ardent, authoritative, biting, catchy, drastic, exquisite, fierce, flush, forceful, forcible, forcibly, great, hard, heavily, heavy, high, important, intense, intensely, intensive, leonine, loud, lusty, marrowy, muscular, nervous, nervy, pithy, potent, powerful, pronounced, resistant, robust, rough, rude, searching, severe, sinewy, solid, stark, stout, strapping, strong, tough, towering, vigorous, violent, virulent), larg (ample, broad, broadly, comprehensive, extensive, full, large, loose, open-mindedly, roomy, space, spacious, spaciousness, vast, wide), grandios (grand, grandiose, imposing, noble, stately, sublime), întins (broad, even, expanse, expansion, expansive, extensive, flat, flatly, large, lengthy, open, outspread, prone, recumbent, smooth, spacious, sprawling, strained, stretched, supine, taut, tense, vast). (various references) | |
Russian | могущественный (imperious, powerful, prepotent, puissant). (various references) | |
Scottish | cumhachdach. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | moćan (potent, potential, powerful), veoma (badly, downright, greatly, highly, most, passing, plumb, real, right, terribly, vastly, very), snažan (able bodied, burly, firm, forceful, hefty, lusty, powerful, robust, robustious, sinewy, stalwart, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, vivid, well knit). (various references) | |
Spanish | poderoso (capable, cogent, forceful, in power, potent, powerful). (various references) | |
Swedish | väldig (almighty, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, frantic, grand, huge, immense, oceanic, swingeing, swinging, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vast, walloping), mäktig (powerful, strong, towering). (various references) | |
Thai | ทรงพลัง, อย่างมากมาย (copiously, enormously, exceedingly, largely, sorely). (various references) | |
Turkish | muazzam (colossal, egregious, enormous, fab, grandiose, great, howling, huge, immense, magnific, magnifical, puissant, spanking, stupendous, tremendous, whacking), zorlu (formidable, intractable, redoubtable, robust, rugged, sticky, stiff, stringent, sweaty, thorny, tough), pek çok (a great many, a whale of a lot, immensely, most, numberless, oodles, oodles of, out and away, overmuch, plenty, plenty of, very much), kuvvetli (Doughty, energetic, forceful, heady, healty, hearty, intense, lusty, muscular, potent, powered, powerful, retentive, robust, rugged, sappy, sinewed, sinewy, sound, stalwart, stout, strong, swinging, tenacious, vigorous, virile, virulent), güçlü (bouncing, brawny, energetic, forceful, full-blooded, heroic, high pressure, iron, keen, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, prepotent, robust, sinewed, sinewy, spirited, stalwart, stout, strong, sturdy, vigorous, virile, voluminous), büyük (almighty, ample, big, bulky, capacious, capital, cyclopean, elder, enormous, exalted, extended, grand, grand-, great, great-, handsome, healthy, high, keen, large, large scale, long, macro-, magniloquent, major, mega-, megalo-, no end, no end of, older, out, precious, rousing, senior, smart, star, stout, sublime, swingeing, wide), aziz (August, dear, ducky, glorious, precious, Reverend, Saint, saintly, st, st.). (various references) | |
Turkmen | дpet (huge, powerful). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | величезний (astronomic, astronomical, babylonian, banging, decuman, dimensionless, enormous, flagrant, formidable, giantlike, grandiose, great, handsome, huge, immense, monstrous, mountainous, overwhelming, prodigious, slapping, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vasty, walloping, whacking, whaling), надзвичайно (almighty, amain, anxiously, as anything, awfully, deadly, densely, dreadfully, eminently, enormously, exceedingly, extremely, grossly, highly, hugely, in great measure, in the extreme, jolly, most, passing, regular, remarkably, ripping, sevenfold, severely, to the utmost, very much, woundily), могутній (forcible, multipotent, powerful, prepotent, sinewed, spanking, strong), дуже (anxiously, awfully, bang, bitter, bloody, clinking, curiously, deep, enormously, exceedingly, frightfully, full, gey, greatly, hard, heaps, highly, hugely, immensely, in great measure, jolly, mightily, miles, much, nervously, notably, particularly, passing, precious, purely, real, really, shocking, some, strong, super, thumping, too, very, very much, violently, well, widely). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mạnh (hard, intense, intensive, marrowy, rough, smart, telling, thundering), vĩ đại (grandiose, magnific, magnifical, titanesque, titanic), rất (dogged, highly, immensely, mightily, thoroughly, thundering, very), lắm (clinking, dogged, ever, gey, highly, jolly, lousy, precious, preciously, very), hết sức (all-fired, blooming, deadly, dogged, enourmously, extremely, fault, frightfuly, grossly, half, halves, handle, highly, howling, hugely, immortally, jolly, mightily, out, precious, profound, sorely, thoroughly, thundering, unco), hùng vĩ (grandiose, imposing, proudly, sublime), hùng mạnh to lớn, hùng cường (powerful, puissant). (various references) | |
Welsh | terrwyn (brave, fierce), nerthol (powerful, strong), grymus (powerful, strong), galluog (able, powerful), dengyn (strong, stubborn), cadarn (firm, strong), amddyfrwys (marshy, rugged). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | forte, fortem, fortes, forti, fortia, fortibus, fortior, fortiora, fortiorem, fortiores, fortiori, fortioribus, fortioris, fortiorum, fortis, fortissima, fortissimam, fortissime, fortissimi, fortissimis, fortissimo, fortissimorum, fortissimos, fortissimum, fortissimus, fortium, fortius, ingens, ingentem, ingentes, ingenti, ingentia, ingentique, pollens, potens, potente, potentem, potentes, potenti, potentia, potentibus, potentior, potentiore, potentis, potentissimam, potentissimi, potentissimis, potentissimo, potentissimus, potentium, validus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | sûra, ukhra. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | mihtig. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 10, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | CouV de egennhsen ton nebrwd outoV hrxato einai gigaV epi thV ghV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Porro Chus genuit Nemrod ipse coepit esse potens in terra |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | An þære wæs Nenroth; þe Nemroth wæs mihtig on eorþan |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Chus forsothe gat Nemeroth; he bigan to be myyti in the erthe, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Chus also begot Nemrod which bega to be myghtye in the erth. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 10, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | Ug si Cush nanganak kang Nimrod: kini misugod sa pagkahimo nga gamhanan sa yuta. |
| Croatian | Od Kuša se rodio Nimrod, koji je postao prvi velmoža na zemlji. |
| Danish | Og Kusj avlede Nimrod, som var den første Storhersker på Jorden. |
| Dutch | En Cusch gewon Nimrod; deze begon geweldig te zijn op de aarde. |
| Finnish | Ja Kuusille syntyi Nimrod. Hän oli ensimmäinen valtias maan päällä. |
| French | Cusch engendra aussi Nimrod; c`est lui qui commença à être puissant sur la terre. |
| German | Chus aber zeugte den Nimrod. Der fing an ein gewaltiger Herr zu sein auf Erden, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kus mempunyai anak laki-laki bernama Nimrod yang menjadi orang perkasa pertama di dunia. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Kusypun beranak Nimrod, maka inilah mulai menjadi seorang penggagah di atas bumi ini. |
| Maori | A whanau ake ta Kuhu ko Nimirota; i timata ia hei tangata nui ki runga ki te whenua. |
| Norwegian | Og Kus fikk sønnen Nimrod; han var den første som fikk stort velde på jorden. |
| Portuguese | Cuche também gerou a Ninrode, o qual foi o primeiro a ser poderoso na terra. |
| Rumanian | Cuw a nqscut wi pe Nimrod: el este acela care a knceput sq fie puternic pe pqmknt. |
| Russian | иХЫ ТПДЙМ ФБЛЦЕ оЙНТПДБ: УЕК ОБЮБМ ВЩФШ УЙМЕО ОБ ЪЕНМЕ. |
| Swedish | Men Kus födde Nimrod; han var den förste som upprättade ett välde på jorden. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "mighty": almighty, overmighty. (additional references) | |
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"Mighty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amighty, dighty, Megahy, mightay, mighte, mit, mitey, mity, myghty, nighty, rightie, righty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mighty" (pronounced mī"tē) |
| 4 | m ī" t ē | almighty. |
| 3 | -ī" t ē | flighty, righty, whitey. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-m-t-y" | |
-1 letter: might, thymi. | |
-2 letters: mity, myth. | |
-3 letters: ghi, git, gym, him, hit, mig, thy. | |
-4 letters: hi, hm, it, mi, my, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-m-t-y" | |
+2 letters: almighty, mightily. | |
+3 letters: thingummy. | |
+4 letters: midnightly, mythmaking, mythologic, overmighty. | |
+5 letters: homogeneity, hygrometric, lightsomely, methylating, mycophagist, mythicizing, mythmakings, mythologies, mythologist, mythologize, rhythmizing. | |
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