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Powerful

Definition: Powerful

Powerful

Adjective

1. Having great power or force or potency or effect; "the most powerful government in western Europe"; "his powerful arms"; "a powerful bomb"; "the horse's powerful kick"; "powerful drugs"; "a powerful argument".

2. Strong enough to knock down or overwhelm; "a knock-down blow".

3. Having the power to influence or convince; "a cogent analysis of the problem"; "potent arguments".

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

5. Displaying superhuman strength or power; "herculean exertions".

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 "powerful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Powerful

DomainDefinition

Computing

PowerFuL A language combining functional programming and logic programming, using "angelic Powerdomains". (1998-06-30). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Synonyms: Powerful

Synonyms: brawny (adj), cogent (adj), hefty (adj), herculean (adj), knock-down(a) (adj), muscular (adj), potent (adj), sinewy (adj), mighty (adv), right (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: powerless (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Powerful

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Physical Energy

Potent; (powerful); radioactive.

Power

Verb: be powerful; Adjective: gain power; n.

Adjective: powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to; cogent, valid; efficient, productive; effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent, plenipotent, omnipotent; almighty.

Strength

Resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable, unquenchable; incontestable; more than a match for; overpowering, overwhelming; all powerful, all sufficient; sovereign.

Adjective: strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid.

Vigor

Adjective: vigorous, nervous, powerful, forcible, trenchant, incisive, impressive; sensational.

Voice

Noun: voice; vocality; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful voice; (loud); musical voice; intonation; tone of voice; (sound).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Powerful

Specialty definitions using "powerful": asymptotically most powerful testmost powerful testPowerful sightuniformly most powerful test. (references)
Etymologies containing "powerful": Vertuous. (references)

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Modern Usage: Powerful

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The most powerful man in the world (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

They had forgotten the first lesson, that we are to be powerful, beautiful, and without regret (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo.)

Even more powerful than Master Yoda (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

They contain powerful magnets (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)

Lyrics

Her loving is so powerful, huh (SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE; performing artist: Robert Palmer)

She's a craze you'd endorse, she's a powerful force (SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE; performing artist: Robert Palmer)

Clever

Life lesson: The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. (references; author: unknown)

Your thoughts can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Eighteeen Powerful Swords (1965)

The Powerful Eye (1924)

H.M.S. Powerful at Spithead (1897)

A Powerful Thang (1991)

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

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Commercial Usage: Powerful

DomainTitle

Books

  • The 21 Most Powerful Minutes In A Leader's Day revitalize Your Spirit And Empower Your Leadership (reference)

  • The Ultimate Sales Letter: Boost Your Sales With Powerful Sales Letters, Based on Madison Avenue Techniques (reference)

  • Secrets of Question Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results (reference)

  • The Pope's Armada: Unlocking the Secrets of Mysterious and Powerful New Sects in the Church (reference)

  • The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America (reference)

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Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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Image Slideshow: Powerful

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Powerful

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DNA microarray technology is a powerful new research tool that allows scientists to assess the level of expression of a large subset of the 100,000 human genes in a cell or tissue. This technology can quickly produce a snapshot of the genes that are active in a tumor cell, critical information in narrowing the precise molecular causes of a cancer. Two different images available. First is of female lab technician sitting at computer that displays a microarray. The second is a man at same setting. Credit: Bill Branson.

Nature's most powerful explosions, gamma-ray bursts, occur among the normal stellar population ... Credit: NASA.

Pushing the limits of its powerful vision, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the ... Credit: NASA.

NOAA aerial photography of damage caused by Hurricane Camille Camille was one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever strike the United States. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

For reasons not completely understood, in some years the anti-cyclone is less powerful than normal. The weaker winds it produces fail to draw cold waters up to the ocean's surface, thus opening the way for warm, nutrient-poor tropical waters. These changes in water temperature and climatic conditions are known as "El Nino". Credit: Fisheries.

Wolf-eels, Anarrhichthys ocellatus, have powerful jaws for crushing bivalves. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Patrick Cowsert, NRCS soil scientist, discusses powerful new electrical conductivity technology with engineer from University of Nebraska's Dept of Biological Systems Engineering. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Chemist Harold Griffin extracts an enzyme from a bacterium found in shipworms that is a powerful new stain remover for laundry detergents. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

North elevation looking southwest. Photograph by Walter Smalling, 1977. (Reproduction Number: HABS, DC,WASH,166-12 (CT)) Frederick Douglass, a powerful and influential runaway slave, abolitionist, editor, and statesman, purchased this house in 1877. It was preserved as a memorial to Douglass after his death in 1895. The National Park Service restored the house in 1971-72, utilizing HABS documentation that had been produced in 1963-64. Today, the Frederick Douglass House is a popular and heavily visited site for those studying American history. Credit: Library of Congress.

I'm powerful sorry for poor old Hugo, but it kept the boys off my neck! / Berryman. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Powerful
 

"Powerful car" by Jean-philippe Dufour
Commentary: "One of my friend's car...a wonderful Nova SS, 454 horsepower."
"Power" by Earl Estrera
Commentary: "The cross has always been a powerful symbol. In this case, the cross has been taken from a portion of a power line with all the cables tied on to it."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Powerful

AuthorQuotation

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is more powerful than matter.
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Euripides

To the lowly, the powerful and rich are as gods.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Distrust all men in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Friedrich Schiller

Even weak men when united are powerful.

Phaedrus

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

Publilius Syrus

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Seneca

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Powerful

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

But when we consider, that the practice of the strong and powerful, how universal soever it may be, is seldom the rule of right, however it be one part of the subjection of the conquered, not to argue against the conditions cut out to them by the conquering sword. (Second Treatise of Government)

Communist Manifesto

1848

The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

We cannot be blind to the fact that the liberties enjoyed by individual citizens throughout the British Empire are not valid in a considerable number of countries, some of which are very powerful. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

John F. Kennedy

1961

Divided, there is little we can do--for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Powerful

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

So powerful was its radiance, that it thoroughly illuminated the dense medium of cloud betwixt the sky and earth

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

A great city is the most powerful of stercoraries

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

And let you, Stephen, make a novena to your holy patron saint, the first martyr, who is very powerful with God, that God may enlighten your mind

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Some of the owner men were a little proud to be slaves to such cold and powerful masters

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Nay, sometimes the floor is strewn with dust on purpose, when the person to be admitted happens to have powerful enemies at court

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Thaw with his gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Powerful

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Pleasure can be a powerful tool for health. (references)

For others, glasses that provide powerful magnification may be better. (references)

Policy and legislative change can have rapid, powerful, and positive results. (references)

Business

They have at the same time been rocked by powerful changes. (references)

The data and broad band services market has many powerful already established companies. (references)

Hence, they are confronted with powerful incentives to maximize their provision of services. (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

A 1999 High Court ruling enabled Reform and Conservative rabbis to hold seats on the powerful municipal and religious councils. (references)

Guatemala

The press criticized the military and other powerful sectors. (references)

Honduras

A small number of powerful business magnates whose business interests, political loyalties, and family ties often intersect own many news media. (references)

Discrimination

Syria

In practice membership in the Ba'th Party or close familial relations with a prominent party member or powerful government official can be important for economic, social, or educational advancement. (references)

Economic History

Libya

This plan has been moderately well received, although more powerful would-be participants such as Nigeria and South Africa are skeptical. (references)

Thailand

Many aspects of the reform measures enacted after the crisis were controversial, and were resisted strongly by the political opposition and other powerful elements of Thai society . Despite some setbacks, however, the reform process is continuing. (references)

Human Rights

Ukraine

Deputy Prime Minister's Tymoshenko's efforts to reform the energy sector had drawn strong opposition, most notably from powerful business persons closely tied to the Government, and Tymoshenko claimed that the charges were politically motivated. (references)

Brazil

Minor riots at the end of 2000 continued into the beginning of the year and led to a massive rebellion in mid-February, coordinated by a powerful prison gang (First Capital Command), involving over 25,000 inmates in almost 30 prisons in Sao Paulo state. (references)

Honduras

Both the judiciary and the Public Ministry suffer from inadequate funding; low wages and lack of internal controls make law enforcement officials susceptible to bribery; the civil law inquisitorial system is both inefficient and opaque; and powerful special interests still exercise influence and often prevail in the courts. (references)

Indigenous People

Philippines

The Higaonon people in Mindanao claim that they continue to be deprived of portions of their ancestral land by a powerful local landowning family that forced their removal through a violent demolition conducted by the PNP and private security forces in 1997. The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines continues to express concern over the effects of existing and planned large-scale mining on the land of the many indigenous people of Mindanao. (references)

Minorities

Cote d'Ivoire

Members of northern ethnic groups that are found in neighboring countries as well as in the country often are required to document their citizenship, whereas members of historically or currently politically powerful ethnic groups of the south and west reportedly do not have this problem. (references)

Burma

Both groups have tended to be more commercially oriented and hence more prosperous and economically powerful than Burmans; however, such commercial success has caused resentment among the Burman majority. (references)

Political Economy

Philippines

Judges and prosecutors are poorly paid, overburdened, remain susceptible to corruption and the influence of the wealthy and powerful, and often failed to provide due process and equal justice. (references)

POLAND

Some politically powerful state-owned enterprises continue to receive direct or indirect production subsidies to lower export prices. (references)

Ireland

The Dail, as the more powerful parliamentary body, elects the Prime Minister and has the greater authority to revise legislation introduced by the government. (references)

Political Rights

Thailand

The country is a democratically governed constitutional monarchy that until 1992 had a history of military coups and powerful bureaucratic influences on political life. (references)

Turkey

In accordance with the Constitution, the NSC, a powerful, constitutionally mandated advisory body to the Government composed of senior military officers and civilian government leaders and chaired by the President, plays a significant role in shaping government policy. (references)

Kenya

The President appoints both the powerful provincial and district commissioners and numerous district and village officials. (references)

Trade

Honduras

Most of the commercial banks are associated with powerful economic groups, and lend primarily to businesses owned by the group of which they are a part. (references)

Latvia

The increasing competition on the domestic market has provided a powerful incentive for the banking sector to consolidate; and the uncertain future has forced Latvian banks to look for experienced western business partners, particularly Nordic banks. (references)

Travel

Kuwait

Good road surfaces, powerful cars and lax enforcement of traffic regulations combine to make speeding commonplace and driving very hazardous. (references)

Worker Rights

Nigeria

As a result, this historically powerful union was weakened; however, it continued to challenge the Government's action during the year. (references)

Pakistan

Trafficking in women is protected by powerful criminal interests and operates relatively openly. (references)

Mozambique

CONSILMO maintained a working relationship with the OTM, and includes the powerful 28,000-member Union of Industrial Construction Workers of Mozambique (SINTICIM) construction trades union, an early promoter of the rights of female workers. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

OCCIDENT, n. The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce." These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

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

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Spoken Usage: Powerful

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Andrew Weil

It's a powerful anti-oxidant. It helps to treat diabetes, extends survival of breast cancer. Great protective against gum disease, good general anti-oxidant protection.

Rush Limbaugh

Imagine if Canada's neighbors were Iraq or Nazi Germany or the USSR or imperial Japan or any powerful empire.

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Speeches: Powerful

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797Such an attachment of a small or weak toward a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.

James Madison

1809-1817Our enemy is powerful in men and in money, on the land and on the water.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Their present condition, contrasted with what they once were, makes a most powerful appeal to our sympathies.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953One proposition is that lasting peace requires genuine understanding and active cooperation among the most powerful nations.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Divided, there is little we can do--for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974There are powerful personal reasons I want to end this war.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977Increasing health costs are of deep concern to all and a powerful force pushing up the cost of living.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Both nations share a powerful common interest in reducing the threat of a nuclear war.

Ronald Reagan

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

Bill Clinton

1993-2001The financial crisis in Mexico is a powerful case in point.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Powerful

"Powerful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Powerful" is used about 7,205 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)100%7,2051,346

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Derived & Related Names: Powerful

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "powerful".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
PedahzurN/ABiblical

Strong or powerful savior

RabbahN/ABiblical

Powerful

RomanN/ABiblical

Powerful

SosthenesN/ABiblical

Powerful

RomainN/AFrench

Powerful

RomaineN/AFrench

Powerful

RomanaN/AItalian

Powerful

RomanoN/AItalian

Powerful

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Powerful

Expressions using "powerful": a powerful organ all powerful asymptotically most powerful test be more powerful be powerful locally asymptotically most powerful test most powerful test powerful person powerful voice the more powerful because uniformly most powerful test. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "powerful": powerful-looking.

Ending with "powerful": once-powerful, over-powerful.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Powerful

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

powerful quote

62

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7

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48

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7

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28

powerful people

6

powerful prayer

28

the all powerful name

6

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27

commerce e hosting introducing most powerful sol web

6

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27

powerful qoutes

6

powerful aphrodisiac

19

powerful speaker

6

gun hand most powerful

17

powerful sweet

6

powerful love spells

16

listening powerful

6

free love powerful spells

16

a+ easy electronic gradebook powerful use

6

command every get lodestone make make own people powerful that very way

12

powerful flashlight

6

car powerful

12

gun powerful water

6

girl powerful

11

gun powerful

6

powerful spells

11

ebinder environment powerful provides

6

powerful result

11

gun hand in most powerful world

6

powerful words

10

poem powerful

5

engine powerful search

10

powerful vibrator

5

powerful magnet

9

card gi most oh powerful yu

5

cleaning eliteforce2000 home powerful solution

9

engagement powerful

5

orgasm powerful

8

card powerful yugioh

5
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Modern Translation: Powerful

Language Translations for "powerful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), i jashtëzakonshëm (egregious, emergency, exceeding, exceptional, exceptive, exclusive, extraordinary, heroic, inconceivable, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, prodigious, sole, stupendous, terrible, thumping, transcendent, transcendental, uncommon, unthinkable, unusual, wonderful), i fuqishëm (able bodied, forcible, full-blooded, green, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, husky, lusty, marrowy, mighty, orotund, potent, potential, racy, red blooded, robust, sound, spanking, stalwart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, violent), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏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, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏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, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏جبار (colossal, giant, huge, strong man, superhuman, titanic, tremendous). (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, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), голям (almighty, big, chunking, gone, great, grown up, hearty, heavy, hefty, jolly, large, major, man-sized, massive, near, numerous, proper, vast, vasty, walloping), мощен (forceful, main, massive, mighty, vigorous), могъщ (mighty, potent). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(strong), 有力 (forceful, vigorous), (dynamic, forceful, highway, public road, strong, to charge, to collide, to dash, to punch, to rinse, to rush, to wash out, to water), 强有力 (forceful), (multitudinous), 強大 (formidable, large, strong), 強勁 (with force), (better, force, power, strength). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vlivný (great, important, influent, influential, seminal), silný (bad, big, boisterous, good, hard, heady, heavy, hefty, high, large, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stiff, stocky, stout, strong, sturdy, thick, tough, valid, vigorous, violent), rázný (brisk, crisp, energetic, firm, peremptory, sharp), mocný (forceful, formidable, mighty, potent, potential, strong, virtuous). (various references)

   

Danish

  

staerke desoxydationsstoffer, som Ti og Al, har betydelig indflydelse paa staalets aeldning og tendens til sproedbrud (powerful deoxidizers in the alloy have a considerable influence on the ageing and embrittling process), stærkeste test (most powerful test), optimal asymptotisk test (locally asymptotically most powerful test, optimal asymptotic test), lokalt stærkeste rangordens test (locally most powerful rank order test), kuludvindingsmaskiner som skaerer over den fulde bredde af brydningsfronten, er tilkolbet et transportbaand, der ved skiftestedet foraarsager ophvirvling af stoev (the full-face machines are provided with powerful conveyors and the transfer points are areas where considerable quantities of dust become airborne), kraftige pumper sproejter borevaesken ind i borestrengens inderste hulrum;den traenger ud gennem borekronens straalehuler og stiger derefter op gennem ringrummet mellem roer og borevaeg (returning to the surface up the annular space between the drill-string and the sides of the borehole, the drilling mud is forced by powerful pumps into the drill string and out of the nozzles of the bit), ensartet stærkeste test (UMP test, uniformly most powerful test), asymptotisk stærkeste test (asymptotically most powerful test). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

machtig. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

potenca. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

voimallinen (forceful, mighty, potent), voimakas (acute, forcible, intense, intensive, mighty, strong, substantial, vigorous), väkevä (strong), mahtava (great, high, mighty). (various references)

   

French

  

puissant (potent). (various references)

   

German

  

gewaltig (colossal, enormous, epic, formidable, grand, heroic, huge, hugely, immense, massive, mightily, mighty, monumental, mountainous, mountainously, portentous, prodigious, ravenous, resounding, rude, shattering, towering, tremendous, vast, vastly, violent, walloping), mächtig (heavy, heroic, heroically, jolly, massive, mightily, mighty, potent, puissant, puissantly, spanking, strong, terrific, terrifically, thick, tremendous, tremendously), stark (a lot, able, bad, badly, bright, brightly, broad, considerable, forceful, great, greatly, grossly, hard, hearty, heavily, heavy, high-powered, intense, keen, keenly, large, loud, marked, mighty, potent, potently, profound, profuse, profusely, racily, racy, really well, robust, severe, severely, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, substantial, thick, tough, vehement, very, vigorous, violent, virulent, vivid, wild), kraftvoll (forceful, lusty, powerfull, powerfully, sinewy, vigorous, virile). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ισχυρόσ (forceful, hefty, influential, mighty, potent, puissant, strong, sturdy), ισχυρός (forceful, mighty, stiff), δυναμικός (dynamic), δυνατόσ (feasibly, forceful, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, possible, potent, practicable, smacking, splitting, strong, vigorous, virile), δυνατός (mighty, strong, swingeing, vigorous). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מלא עוצמה, תקיף (assertive, determined, emphatic, forceful, mighty, peremptory, resolute, vehement), עזיז (mighty, strong), עז (cordial, fervent, fierce, goat, intense, mighty, strong, tearing), חזק (cast iron, firm, forceful, forcible, forte, hard, intense, intensive, mighty, potent, stiff, strong, tough), אדיר (glorious, great, mighty, noble, splendid), חסון (hefty, husky, immunization, inoculation, lusty, robust, strengthening, strong, sturdy, thickset), בעל השפעה (influential), רב כח (herculean). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hatalmas (ample, enormous, giant, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, herculean, huge, mighty, monumental, overpowering, smashing, Titanic, vast). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

perkasa (strong, sturdy, super), sangat kuat, kuat (dashing, mighty, potent, sturdy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

poderoso (enormous, mighty, strong, towering, tremendous). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

強い (mighty, strong). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

パワフル , きょうりょく (collaboration, cooperation, strong), きょうだい (bridge abutment, brother and sister, dresser, Kyoto University, mighty, older brother and younger sister, older sister and younger brother, siblings, sisters), つよい (mighty, potent, strong), せいきょう (canon of Scripture, Christianity, church and state, Confucianism, co-op store, cooperative association, orthodox church, orthodoxy, prosperity, religion and politics, sacred teachings, success), せいえい (efficient, elite, picked, portrait, your health and prosperity), ゆうけい (concrete, material, quiet sequestered scene, secret promise, tangible, vigorous). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

강력한 (forceful, Violent). (various references)

   

Manx

  

reirtagh, reiragh (administrative, executive, manageable, managerial, ordering), pooaral (influential, puissant), pooaragh (influential), niartal (cogent, forcible, potent, strong, strong bodied), mooar (big, bold, bold promintary, capacious, chief, commodious, difficult, extensive, extravagant, familiar, grand, great, grievous, heavy, hit off, hobnob, intense, intimate, loose-fitting, major, marked, tall), lajer (able-bodied, cogent, forcible, forte, hard, heady, heavy, high-power, high-powered, lusty, potent, pronounced, rich, sound, stark, stout, strong, vigorous, vigorous as plant), erreartagh (illustrious), cummeydagh (able, competent, inventive, old Manx sheep dog, schemer, well-shaped), cummaghtagh (influential, powered), abyl (able-bodied, adroit, businesslike, capable, slick, smart). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

potente, poderoso. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owerfulpay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

poderoso (masterful, mighty, overpowering, potent, puissant, sovereign). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

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, mighty, muscular, nervous, nervy, pithy, potent, pronounced, resistant, robust, rough, rude, searching, severe, sinewy, solid, stark, stout, strapping, strong, tough, towering, vigorous, violent, virulent), voinic (bulky, burly, chopping, hale and hearty, Hardy, healthy, hefty, hero, husky, mite, muscular, nervy, stout, strapping, sturdy, tight, upstanding, vigorous), tare (adamant, adamantine, badly, crusty, deeply, double, durable, fast, fierce, firm, firmly, greatly, hard, hollow, intense, intensely, lasting, leathery, loud, loudly, mighty, potent, rigid, robust, rocky, solid, spanking, stalwart, steady, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, sturdy, to the echo, tough, unflinching, unflinchingly, vehement, vigorous, violent), intens (arduous, cut throat, deep, exquisite, heavy, high, intense, intensely, intensive, keen, saturated, severe, strenuous, strong, violent), influent (important, influential, weighty). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мощный (fast track, fast-track, forceful, high-powered, mighty). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

starbhanta (robust), neartmhor, lùthmhor (able, agile, supple). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

svemoćan, snažan (able bodied, burly, firm, forceful, hefty, lusty, mighty, robust, robustious, sinewy, stalwart, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, vivid, well knit), silan (howling, intense, potential, strong, swingeing, thumping), moćan (mighty, potent, potential), jak (beefy, bruiser, great, grunting ox, humming, intense, lusty, racy, red blooded, sinewy, spanking, stiff, strong, tenacious, yak). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

poderoso (capable, cogent, forceful, in power, mighty, potent). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mäktig (mighty, strong, towering), stark (able bodied, able-bodied, emphatic, forcible, hot, intense, keen, loud, lusty, poignant, potent, sharp, sinewy, strong, substantial, tough, vigorous, violent), kraftfull (emphatic, energetic, forceful, lusty, red blooded, strong, telling, trenchant, vigorous, virile). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yetkili (authoritative, authorized, commissioned, competent, entitled to, ex cathedra, executive, qualified), nüfuzlu (ascendant, ascendent, dominant, important, influential, of weight, potent, weighty), kuvvetli (Doughty, energetic, forceful, heady, healty, hearty, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powered, 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, mighty, pithy, potent, powered, prepotent, robust, sinewed, sinewy, spirited, stalwart, stout, strong, sturdy, vigorous, virile, voluminous), etkili (commanding, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, forceful, forcible, hefty, influential, moving, operative, penetrating, penetrative, poignant, potent, sovereign, swinging, telling, trenchant), çok miktarda. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kuwwatly (strong), дpet (huge, mighty). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

яскравий (bright, brilliant, catchy, cheesy, colorful, colourful, flamboyant, flaming, florid, garish, gorgeous, high-colored, high-coloured, illustrious, lightsome, noisy, obvious, oriental, pictorial, picturesque, quicksilver, sober, starry, vivid), сильний (acute, athletic, bad, bitter, bull, cordial, deep, driving, nervous, nervy, penetrating, potent, punchy, quick, sharp, smart, spanking, strong, swingeing, vehement, vigorous), могутній (forcible, mighty, multipotent, prepotent, sinewed, spanking, strong), переконливий (cogent, commanding, conclusive, convictive, convincing, decisive, demonstrative, forcible, ostensive, persuasive, stringent). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

mạnh mẽ có quyền thế lớn, hùng mạnh, hùng cường (mighty, puissant), có uy quyền lớn, có quyền lực lớn. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

pwerus, nerthol (mighty, strong), hydr (bold, strong), grymus (mighty, strong), galluog (able, mighty), cyfoethog (affluent, rich, wealthy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Powerful

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

alim. (various references)

Greek700 BCE-300 CE

dynamikos. (various references)

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, grande, grandem, grandes, grandi, grandia, grandis, granditer, imperiosus, lacertosus, magna, magnae, magnam, magnamque, magnaque, magnarum, magnarumque, magnas, magne, magni, magnis, magno, magnorum, magnos, magnum, magnus, maior, maiora, maiore, maiorem, maiores, maioresque, maiori, maioribus, maioris, maiorque, maiorum, maius, maxima, maximam, maximas, maxime, maximeque, maximi, maximis, maximo, maximum, maximus, pervalida, polleo, potens, potente, potentem, potentes, potenti, potentia, potentibus, potentior, potentiore, potentis, potentissimam, potentissimi, potentissimis, potentissimo, potentissimus, potentium, potis, potissimum, praegrandes, supervalebit, vale, valeamus, valeas, valeat, valebam, valebant, valebat, valebimus, valebis, valebit, valemus, valens, valent, valentes, valenti, valentibus, valeo, valere, vales, valet, valete, valetis, valida, validae, validam, valide, validiore, validis, valido, validos, validum, validus, valuerunt, valuimus, valuit. (various references)

Avestan200-600

ýaoxshtivañtem, aiwithûranãm, ukhra. (various references)

Old English450-1100

mihtig, rice. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Powerful

LanguageDateSource2 Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintOti ai men epistolai fhsin bareiai kai iscurai h de parousia tou swmatoV asqenhV kai o logoV exouqenhmenoV
Latin405VulgateQuoniam quidem epistulae inquiunt graves sunt et fortes praesentia autem corporis infirma et sermo contemptibilis
Middle English1395Wyclif