adjective. Having or capable of exerting power.

adjective. Effective or potent.

adjective. Great.

adverb. Very.

Very: as, powerful good; powerful weak.

Exerting great force or power; able to produce great physical effects; strong; efficient: as, a powerful engine; a powerful blow; a powerful medicine.

Having great authority; puissant; potent; mighty: as, a powerful nation.

Characterized by great intellectual power.

Having great influence or moral power; cogent; efficacious.

Great; numerous; numerically large. Compare power, 10.

Synonyms Puissant, forcible, cogent, influential; vigorous, robust, sturdy.

adjective. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense

adjective. Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.

adjective. Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.

adjective. Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.

adjective. having great power or force or potency or effect

adjective. strong enough to knock down or overwhelm

adjective. having great influence

adjective. (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful

adjective. displaying superhuman strength or power

adverb. (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree

"Tyler Sudley would break out, addressing the teacher, all unmindful of scholastic etiquette, a flush of pleasure rising to his swarthy cheek as he thrust back his wide black hat on his long dark hair and turned his candid gray eyes, all aglow, upon the cadaverous, ascetic preceptor, "ain't Lee-yander a-gittin 'on powerful, _powerful_ fas' with his book?""

powerless  

able  cogent  forcible  influential  

all-powerful  almighty  coercive  compelling  influential  

effective  mighty  new  strong  

absolute  acid  armipotent  ascendant  authoritarian