| 单词 | potent |
| 释义 | potent (once / 120 pages) adj Potent means really strong, but not like a body builder. Use potent instead to describe things like intense smells, powerful magic potions, and very influential people. From the Latin potentum, meaning “powerful,” potent is just that: having tremendous strength or influence in either a moral or physical sense. A potent question gets to the heart of the matter and sparks serious discussion. Really stiff drinks can be potent, as can your breath after a garlicky meal. And as the composer Igor Stravinsky once asked, "What force is more potent than love?" WORD FAMILYpotent: impotent, potency, potenter, potentest, potently+/impotence: impotences/impotency: impotencies/impotent: impotence, impotency, impotenter, impotently/potency: potencies, potential, prepotency/potential: potentiality, potentially, potentials/potentiality: potentialities USAGE EXAMPLESIndia’s “demonetisation” is a cautionary tale of the reckless misuse of one of the most potent of policy tools: control over an economy’s money. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) And Republicans have exploited it as a potent symbol of what they have said is Obamacare’s dangerous expansion of government. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) The potent plant has been described as "green gold" for struggling farmers. BBC(Nov 30, 2016) 1adj having or wielding force or authority providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons Syn strong powerful having great power or force or potency or effect 2adj having great influence Syn powerful influential having or exercising influence or power 3adj having a strong physiological or chemical effect a potent toxin potent liquor "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink Syn|Ant stiff, strong effective, effectual, efficacious producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect fertilecapable of reproducing equipotenthaving equal strength or efficacy multipotentable to many things powerfulhaving great power or force or potency or effect impotent lacking power or ability infertile, sterile, unfertileincapable of reproducing ineffective, ineffectual, unablelacking in power or forcefulness impuissantlacking physical strength or vigor powerlesslacking power 4adj (of a male) capable of copulation Syn|Ant virile impotent (of a male) unable to copulate |
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