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Mighty

Definition: Mighty

Mighty

Adjective

1. 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.

Adverb

1. (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)

 

Specialty Definition: Mighty

DomainDefinition

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Mighty

Synonyms: powerful (adv), right (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Mighty

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Mighty

English words defined with "mighty": ArmipotentBellipotentCross potentdevelop, Down onForcible entry and detainerGiganteanheave, heavingMightful, Mightiespowerfulrighttear. (references)
Specialty definitions using "mighty": abd, Abracadabra, Adino, Adoni-zedec, Alla Akbar, AscapartCat may look at a King, Chattelin'sDUELEliada, EruditionFOREORDINATIONGodsHagarene, HERCULES, High Ropes, HumberKai-Omurs, Kettle, King of YvetotLocustsMount of the congregationPurlerROBERT'S MEN, ROOSEVELT, Rumolt, Rykell, RythonSons of the Mighty, Storm in a TeapotYoung. (references)
Etymologies containing "mighty": mightily. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mighty

DomainUsage

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)

Mighty Jungle Avenger! Adventures of Captain Africa (1955)

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mighty

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  • Mighty Machines - At The Demolition Site (reference)

  • The Mighty Ducks (reference)

  • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie/ Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (reference)

  • The Mighty Ducks Boxed Set (All 3 Films) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mighty

Illustrations:
Mighty

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Photo Album: Mighty

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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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Mighty
 

"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.

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Familiar Quotations: Mighty

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Mighty

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Mighty

TitleAuthorQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mighty

SubjectTopicQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Mighty

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Buchanan

1857-1861Even descending to this low and narrow view of the mighty question, all such calculations are at fault.

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

Theodore Roosevelt

1901-1909But we have faith that we shall not prove false to the memories of the men of the mighty past.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953At 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

1961-1963The 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

1963-1969Under this covenant of justice, liberty, and union we have become a nation--prosperous, great, and mighty.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981In the coming years, as a mighty nation we will continue to pursue peace.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989So we go forward today, a nation still mighty in its youth and powerful in its purpose.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001We will stand mighty for peace and freedom, and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Mighty

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)98.64%8728,141
Adverb (general)1.36%12101,599
                    Total100.00%884N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Mighty

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MightyLast name13055,452
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Mighty

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "mighty".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
AmziN/ABiblical

Mighty

JehucalN/ABiblical

Mighty

JucalN/ABiblical

Mighty

LaelN/ABiblical

To the mighty

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Mighty

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mighty

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Mighty

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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mighty

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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)

Avestan200-600

sûra, ukhra. (various references)

Old English450-1100

mihtig. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Mighty

LanguageDateSourceGenesis Chapter 10, Verse 8
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintCouV de egennhsen ton nebrwd outoV hrxato einai gigaV epi thV ghV
Latin405VulgatePorro Chus genuit Nemrod ipse coepit esse potens in terra
Old English990West SaxonAn þære wæs Nenroth; þe Nemroth wæs mihtig on eorþan
Middle English1395WyclifChus forsothe gat Nemeroth; he bigan to be myyti in the erthe,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleChus also begot Nemrod which bega to be myghtye in the erth.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd 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.

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Matched Bible Translations: Mighty

LanguageGenesis Chapter 10, Verse 8
CebuanoUg si Cush nanganak kang Nimrod: kini misugod sa pagkahimo nga gamhanan sa yuta.
CroatianOd Kuša se rodio Nimrod, koji je postao prvi velmoža na zemlji.
DanishOg Kusj avlede Nimrod, som var den første Storhersker på Jorden.
DutchEn Cusch gewon Nimrod; deze begon geweldig te zijn op de aarde.
FinnishJa Kuusille syntyi Nimrod. Hän oli ensimmäinen valtias maan päällä.
FrenchCusch engendra aussi Nimrod; c`est lui qui commença à être puissant sur la terre.
GermanChus aber zeugte den Nimrod. Der fing an ein gewaltiger Herr zu sein auf Erden,
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKus mempunyai anak laki-laki bernama Nimrod yang menjadi orang perkasa pertama di dunia.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka Kusypun beranak Nimrod, maka inilah mulai menjadi seorang penggagah di atas bumi ini.
MaoriA whanau ake ta Kuhu ko Nimirota; i timata ia hei tangata nui ki runga ki te whenua.
NorwegianOg Kus fikk sønnen Nimrod; han var den første som fikk stort velde på jorden.
PortugueseCuche também gerou a Ninrode, o qual foi o primeiro a ser poderoso na terra.   
RumanianCuw a nqscut wi pe Nimrod: el este acela care a knceput sq fie puternic pe pqmknt.
RussianиХЫ ТПДЙМ ФБЛЦЕ оЙНТПДБ: УЕК ОБЮБМ ВЩФШ УЙМЕО ОБ ЪЕНМЕ.
SwedishMen Kus födde Nimrod; han var den förste som upprättade ett välde på jorden.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mighty

Derivations

Words ending with "mighty": almighty, overmighty. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Mighty"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "mighty" (pronounced mī"tē)
4m ī" t ēalmighty.
3-ī" t ēflighty, righty, whitey.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Mighty

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Frequency
16. Names: Derived from
17. Expressions
18. Expressions: Internet
19. Translations: Modern
20. Translations: Ancient
21. Bible Trace
22. Derivations
23. Rhymes
24. Anagrams
25. Bibliography


  

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