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♦♦1) ADJ-GRADED A powerful person or organization is able to control or influence people and events.→ See also all-powerful
You're a powerful man - people will listen to you.
...Russia and India, two large, powerful countries.
...Hong Kong's powerful business community.
Syn:Ant:2) ADJ-GRADED You say that someone's body is powerful when it is physically strong.Hans flexed his powerful muscles...
It's such a big powerful dog.
Syn:Ant:Derived words:powerfully ADV-GRADED ADV with vHe is described as a strong, powerfully-built man of 60...
You can contract your muscles more powerfully by linking up your breathing to the exercise.
3) ADJ-GRADED: usu ADJ n A powerful machine or substance is effective because it is very strong.The more powerful the car the more difficult it is to handle.
...powerful computer systems...
Alcohol is also a powerful and fast-acting drug.
Derived words:powerfully ADV ADV adjCrack is a much cheaper, smokable form of cocaine which is powerfully addictive.
4) ADJ-GRADED: usu ADJ n A powerful smell is very strong.There was a powerful smell of stale beer.
...tiny creamy flowers with a powerful scent.
Syn:Derived words:5) ADJ-GRADED A powerful voice is loud and can be heard from a long way away.At that moment Mrs. Jones's powerful voice interrupted them, announcing a visitor.
Syn:6) ADJ-GRADED You describe a piece of writing, speech, or work of art as powerful when it has a strong effect on people's feelings or beliefs....Bleasdale's powerful 11-part drama about a corrupt city leader.
...one of the world's most powerful and moving operas, Verdi's `Otello'.
...a powerful new style of dance-theatre.
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English dictionary. 2008.