puissantadjective
/ˈpwiː.sɑ̃t //ˈpjuː.ɪ.sənt//ˈpwiː.sɑ̃t //ˈpjuː.ɪ.sənt/old usevery strong, powerful, and effective:
The king introduced some of his most significant reforms as an advertisement of his own ever more puissant authority.
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- The book was dedicated to: "the most high, puissant, and redoubted prince, Henry VIII, King of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith".
- Why should there not be intelligent and puissant beings distinct from those perceptible to senses?
- When he died, he left his kingdom to the queen, my mother, who is also a princess, the daughter of another puissant monarch of the sea.
- Milton's notion of England as a "noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep"
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Physically strong and powerful
- (as) tough as old boots idiom
- almighty
- billy-o
- brute
- burly
- elemental
- high-octane
- industrial-strength
- invincible
- invulnerable
- muscle-flexing
- omnipotent
- reckon
- stout
- sturdy
- superhuman
- to be reckoned with idiom
- tough
- toughie
- unabated
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