The Collaborative International Dictionary
Powerful \Pow"er*ful\, a.
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Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.
The powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.
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(Mining) Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.
Syn: Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. [1913 Webster] -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a powerful manner.
WordNet
adv. in a powerful manner; "the federal government replaced the powerfully pro-settler Sir Godfrey Huggins with the even tougher and more determined ex-trade unionist" [syn: strongly]
in a manner having a powerful influence; "Clytemnestra's ghost crying in the night for vengeance remained most potently in the audience's mind" [syn: potently]
Usage examples of "powerfully".
There is no test so powerfully able to bring out latent adaptability as one in which the stakes are survival.
Some new mothers describe the powerfully consuming connection to their babies as bordering on the obsessional.
Ibou pored over a thick roll of yellowing parchment that smelled powerfully of sheep skin and on which, to his infinite lack of interest, various sums and comments were recorded relative to the Varna beylic for the year 1677, he popped the question.
When bruised, it gives out a strong smell of garlic, and when eaten by cows it makes their milk taste powerfully of onions.
My main argument is with an America that sells itself short by buying into the cluster of values expressed so powerfully in our malls.
Culla followed, the mashies clacking together slowly, powerfully with the rhythm of his footsteps.
He looked down upon the bobbing head, whose ministrations he began to feel ever more powerfully, and was taken by the heart shaped buttocks rising creamily behind it.
I was powerfully reminded of those American motion pictures of the 1930s and 40s, set in some vast and dehumanized state or federal penitentiary, in which the prisoners banged their eating utensils against the bars at the appearance of the tyrannical warden.
Purcel Archer, Purcel Trueheart was a powerfully built youth of fifteen, who had already distinguished himself in several skirmishes, earning himself the rank of lieutenant.
The suspense and anxiety she suffered, on this subject, she found all her efforts unable to controul, and her secret wish to see Valancourt once more, though unseen by him, powerfully prompted her to go, but prudence and a delicate pride restrained her, and she determined to avoid the possibility of throwing herself in his way, by forbearing to visit the gardens, for several days.
The instructor was easy to spot, for he was tall, powerfully built, wore a heavily armored leather tunic, and was the only one carrying a gladius, which remained in the sheath at his belt.
Yet I must say that, unknown to everybody, I had in my purse forty bright sequins, which powerfully contributed to increase my cheerfulness, and I left Venice full of joy and without one regret.
I proved him the truth of what I had said by telling him that opium produced the same results as wine, but more powerfully, and consequently Mahomet ought to have forbidden the use of it.
He was likewise a Liten, but the most powerfully built Liten that Adulux had ever seen.
Indeed, he might possibly have been the most powerfully built Liten that anyone had ever seen.