powerful
IPA: pˈaʊɝfʌɫ
adjective
- Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.
- Leading to many or important deductions.
- (mining) Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.
adverb
- (Southern US) Synonym of very
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Examples of "powerful" in Sentences
- The effect was powerful and intimate.
- Now that's what I call a powerful Christian sermon.
- However, the effect on the victim is amazingly powerful.
- The powerful central light source creates a chiaroscuro effect.
- Rape by the powerful is an everyday hazard in Uzbekistan, again as outlined in Murder in Samarkand page 120.
- In reality, my word "powerful" does not do justice to the influence of Scots-Irish culture at the ballot box.
- 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?"