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US
/ˈpaʊɝfəɫ/
]
[ UK /pˈaʊəfəl/ ]
[ UK /pˈaʊəfəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having great power or force or potency or effect
a powerful bomb
the horse's powerful kick
the most powerful government in western Europe
powerful drugs
a powerful argument
his powerful arms -
(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
a muscular boxer
powerful arms
a hefty athlete -
displaying superhuman strength or power
herculean exertions - having great influence
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strong enough to knock down or overwhelm
a knock-down blow
ADVERB
-
(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
it is powerful humid
they have a right nice place
that boy is powerful big now
he's mighty tired
the baby is mighty cute
they rejoiced mightily
How To Use powerful In A Sentence
- The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.
- There was a powerful smell of stale beer.
- That provides a powerful financial incentive for banks to supply more credit. Times, Sunday Times
- It has made it far harder for determined and powerful figures to control how people see events and that can only be a good thing.
- Lime hawk moth moth is named after the hawk because it capable of powerful, long- distance flight. Times, Sunday Times
- At the other end of the social scale were the king and a tiny group of powerful men, all of them rentiers who lived in style on the revenues of their great estates.
- The lower mandible, which is powerful, and is indented at its point to receive the hook, has a very sharp edge, which, with that of the upper mandible, constitutes a pair of formidable shears. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
- Immunoproteomics, a powerful tool for studying antigens at the proteomic level, allowed a comparative investigation of the immunogenicity of capsulate and non-capsulate strains of L. garvieae for vaccine development.
- Magazines need the revenue from this powerful, high-spending label. Times, Sunday Times
- In addition to receiving the best education that the South could offer blacks at that time, Ella inherited a powerful sense of service that made her civil rights efforts extraordinarily unselfish and untiring.
