English Online Dictionary. What means powerful? What does powerful mean?
English
Alternative forms
- powreful, powrefull (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English pouerful, powarfull, equivalent to power + -ful.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpaʊəfəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpaʊɚfəl/
- Hyphenation: pow‧er‧ful
Adjective
powerful (comparative more powerful, superlative most powerful)
- Having, or capable of exerting, power or influence.
- Leading to many or important deductions.
- (mining) Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Being a powerful number.
- Synonym: squareful
Synonyms
- mightful (archaic)
- mighty
- potent
- powersome (dialect)
- strengthful
- strong
- forceful
Antonyms
- powerless
- strengthless
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- strong
Adverb
powerful (comparative more powerful, superlative most powerful)
- (dialect, Southern US or archaic) very; extremely
Anagrams
- powreful