Powerfully

Definition: Powerfully

Powerfully

Adverb

1. In a powerful manner; "the federal government replaced the powerfully pro-settler Sir Godfrey Huggins with the even tougher and more determined ex-trade unionist".

2. In a manner having a powerful influence; "Clytemnestra's ghost crying in the night for vengeance remained most potently in the audience's mind".

Date "powerfully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Powerfully

Synonyms: potently (adv), strongly (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Powerfully

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Greatness	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.
Power	Adverb: powerfully; Adjective: by virtue of, by dint of.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Powerfully

English words defined with "powerfully": Churrus, cogent ♦ Impassionate ♦ May apple, mightily ♦ Nitric acid ♦ Puissantly ♦ raw beauty, raw talent, Rhatanhy ♦ strongly ♦ telling ♦ weighty. (references)

Specialty definitions using "powerfully": Synagogue. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Powerfully

Domain	Title
Books	Barely There, Powerfully Present: Thirty Years of U.S. Policy on International Higher Education (Studies in Higher Education, Dissertation Series.) (reference) Living Powerfully One Day at a Time: Power Thoughts for Each Day of the Year (reference) Resolving Conflict Sooner: The Powerfully Simple 4-Step Method for Reaching Better Agreements More Easily in Everyday Live (reference) Strategy: How to Make Yours Powerfully Simple (HBR OnPoint Collection) [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) The School of the Spirit: Operating Powerfully in the Spirit Realm (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Powerfully

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The spell survives, and just as powerfully as if the natal spot were an earthly paradise.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	This sleep in this solitude, with a neighbour such as he, contained a touch of the sublime, which he felt vaguely but powerfully.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Ma caught his arm and held it powerfully.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Powerfully

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Cocaine is a powerfully addictive drug of abuse. (references)
		A powerfully addictive stimulant that dramatically affects many areas of the central nervous system. (references)
		Methamphetamine is a powerfully addictive stimulant that dramatically affects the central nervous system. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Powerfully

"Powerfully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.77% of the time. "Powerfully" is used about 435 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
Adverb (general)	99.77%	434	13,249
Noun (common)	0.23%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	435	N/A

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

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Expression: Powerfully

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "powerfully": powerfully-built.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Powerfully

Language		Translations for "powerfully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		强大 (formidable, mighty). (various references)

Czech		mocnì (mightily). (various references)

Finnish		voimakkaasti (strongly). (various references)

German		mitreißend (carrying along, exciting, exuberant, galvanic, infectious, powerful, rousing, stirring, thrilling), kraftvoll (forceful, lusty, powerful, powerfull, sinewy, vigorous, virile), kräftig (able bodied, athletic, big, bold, brawny, burly, effectual, firm, florid, forceful, fresh, full, Hale, hard, Hardy, healthy, heartily, hearty, heftily, hefty, husky, keen, loud, loudly, lustily, lusty, massive, nourishing, powerful, puissant, rich, robust, robustly, solid, sound, stalwart, strong, strongly, sturdily, sturdy, substantial, trig, upstanding, vigorous, violent, violently, vivid). (various references)

Greek		ισχυρά (mightily). (various references)

Korean		강� �하게 (forcefully, Violently). (various references)

Pig Latin		owerfullypay

Romanian		cu putere (keenly, stoutly). (various references)

Russian		сильно (anxiously, badly, forcibly, hard, heavily, severely, smashingly, strong, strongly, vigorously). (various references)

Spanish		poderosamente (mightily). (various references)

Swedish		kraftfullt (forcefully, lustily, strongly). (various references)

Ukrainian		сильно (aloud, amain, bitterly, deep, deeply, hard, high, loud, nervously, severely, sound, strongly, sturdily, violently, widely). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Powerfully

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	efficenter. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Powerfully

Misspellings
	"Powerfully" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: powefully, powerfull. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Powerfully"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "powerfully" (pronounced pou"erflē)
4	-er f l ē	colorfully.
3	-f l ē	awfully, beautifully, briefly, chiefly, medfly, roughly, safely, stiffly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Powerfully

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-l-l-o-p-r-u-w-y"
	-2 letters: powerful, woefully.
	-3 letters: flowery, fullery, wofully.
	-4 letters: fellow, fleury, floury, flower, fouler, foully, fowler, fuller, lowery, plower, poller, puller, pulley, purely, purfle, reflow, repoll, upflow, upwell, woeful, wolfer, yellow, yowler.
	-5 letters: felly, ferly, flour, fluor, flyer, folly, foyer, fully, loper, loupe, loury, lower, lowly, plyer, poler, power, prole, prowl, puler, refly, reply, ropey, roupy.
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