powerful
pronunciation
How to pronounce powerful in British English:
UK [ˈpaʊəfl]
How to pronounce powerful in American English:
US [ˈpaʊərfl]
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- Adjective:
- having great power or force or potency or effect
- strong enough to knock down or overwhelm
- having the power to influence or convince
- (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
- displaying superhuman strength or power
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- Adverb:
- (Southern regional intensive) very
Word Origin
- powerful (adj.)
- c. 1400, from power (n.) + -ful. Meaning "of great quality or number" is from 1811; colloquial sense of "exceedingly" (adv.) is from 1822. Related: Powerfully. Thornton ("American Glossary") notes powerful as "Much used by common people in the sense of very," along with monstrous and cites curious expressions such as devilish good, monstrous pretty (1799), dreadful polite, cruel pretty, abominable fine (1803), "or when a young lady admires a lap dog for being so vastly small and declares him prodigious handsome" (1799).
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Example
- 1. You are the most powerful magnet in the universe !
- 2. This abnormal and non-seasonal price movement emphasizes the powerful price move we are seeing .
- 3. Big is powerful , or so it 's generally assumed .
- 4. Typically , video game systems have gotten progressively more powerful .
- 5. Flawgic is that powerful , he says .