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Definition: Powerful |
PowerfulAdjective1. 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". 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 "powerful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | PowerFuL |
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Synonyms: PowerfulSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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). |
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Crosswords: Powerful |
| Specialty definitions using "powerful": asymptotically most powerful test ♦ most powerful test ♦ Powerful sight ♦ uniformly most powerful test. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "powerful": Vertuous. (references) |
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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) | |
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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. |
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| "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." |
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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. |
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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) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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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George Washington | 1789-1797 | Such 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 | 1809-1817 | Our enemy is powerful in men and in money, on the land and on the water. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Their present condition, contrasted with what they once were, makes a most powerful appeal to our sympathies. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | One proposition is that lasting peace requires genuine understanding and active cooperation among the most powerful nations. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Divided, there is little we can do--for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | There are powerful personal reasons I want to end this war. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Increasing health costs are of deep concern to all and a powerful force pushing up the cost of living. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Both nations share a powerful common interest in reducing the threat of a nuclear war. |
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 | The financial crisis in Mexico is a powerful case in point. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7,205 | 1,346 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "powerful". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Pedahzur | N/A | Biblical | Strong or powerful savior |
| Rabbah | N/A | Biblical | Powerful |
| Roman | N/A | Biblical | Powerful |
| Sosthenes | N/A | Biblical | Powerful |
| Romain | N/A | French | Powerful |
| Romaine | N/A | French | Powerful |
| Romana | N/A | Italian | Powerful |
| Romano | N/A | Italian | Powerful |
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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. | |
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Beginning with "powerful": powerful-looking. | |
Ending with "powerful": once-powerful, over-powerful. | |
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| 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. |
| 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 | 騤 (strong), 有力 (forceful, vigorous), 沖 (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), 伾 (multitudinous), 強大 (formidable, large, strong), 強勁 (with force), 強 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | alim. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | dynamikos. (various references) |
| 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, 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) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ýaoxshtivañtem, aiwithûranãm, ukhra. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | mihtig, rice. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oti ai men epistolai fhsin bareiai kai iscurai h de parousia tou swmatoV asqenhV kai o logoV exouqenhmenoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quoniam quidem epistulae inquiunt graves sunt et fortes praesentia autem corporis infirma et sermo contemptibilis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif |