1. Powerful,mighty,potent suggest great force or strength. Powerful suggests capability of exerting great force or overcoming strong resistance: a powerful machine like a bulldozer.Mighty, now chiefly rhetorical, implies uncommon or overwhelming strength of power: a mighty army.Potent implies great natural or inherent power: a potent influence.
The Senate, by happenstance rather than design, has evolved into what Jonathan Chait aptly terms “the most powerful source of institutional racism in American life.”
America needs a democratic revolution|Matthew Yglesias|September 17, 2020|Vox
The Paleogene began with the detonation of an asteroid a billion times more powerful than a nuclear bomb, wiping out 75 percent of all plants and animals on the planet.
Dawn of the Heliocene - Issue 90: Something Green|Summer Praetorius|September 16, 2020|Nautilus
Clearly, it’s a powerful way to help rescue restaurants and bars.
Bar Rescue: Pandemic Edition|jakemeth|September 15, 2020|Fortune
This summer Honeywell revealed a quantum computer that it claimed was more powerful than any other, as measured by an IBM’s own preferred quantum volume metric.
IBM plans a huge leap in superfast quantum computing by 2023|rhhackettfortune|September 15, 2020|Fortune
Then I carefully opened the trap and watched as the mole used its powerful front legs—as if doing a breaststroke—to burrow down into the leaves and dirt, disappearing in only a few seconds.
How to hunt for star-nosed moles (and their holes)|Kenneth Catania|September 15, 2020|Popular Science
They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.
Mario Cuomo, Always Moving Us Toward the Light|Mike Barnicle|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In memoriam, Parker Molloy writes a powerful letter to Leelah.
Six Must-Read Stories About Gay Mormon Husbands and Iranian Drug Wars|The Daily Beast|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It might be the most powerful affirmation, and perhaps even a feminist or political statement, from any public person this year.
Bow Down, Bitches: How Beyoncé Turned an Elevator Brawl Into a Perfect Year|Kevin Fallon|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was fearless and raunchy and fun and ridiculous and weird and feminist and powerful.
Bow Down, Bitches: How Beyoncé Turned an Elevator Brawl Into a Perfect Year|Kevin Fallon|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But taking such action puts them at odds with the most powerful and best-organized segment of their coalition.
How Public Sector Unions Divide the Democrats|Daniel DiSalvo|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And there is no hope of success, but through our powerful Intercessor.
A Christian Directory (Part 2 of 4)|Richard Baxter
It appears that there is a powerful moral effect that follows this loss, as might, in the majority, be anticipated.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present|Peter Charles Remondino
Morey had been scanning the horizon with a pair of powerful binoculars.
Islands of Space|John W Campbell
With a powerful lever the soldiers attempted to prise open the door of the columbarium, shaking the edifice on its foundations.
The Death of the Gods|Dmitri Mrejkowski
In this manner did he indulge in the wild and uncouth glee of a savage as ferocious as he was powerful.
The Dead Boxer|William Carleton
British Dictionary definitions for powerful
powerful
/ (ˈpaʊəfʊl) /
adjective
having great power, force, potency, or effect
extremely effective or efficient in actiona powerful drug; a powerful lens