Synonyms for potent
ˈpoʊt ntpo·tent

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1. potentadjective

   Antonyms:
   impotent

2. potentadjective

   Antonyms:
   impotent

3. potentadjective

   Antonyms:
   impotent

4. potentadjective

   Antonyms:
   impotent

5. potentadjective

   Antonyms:
   impotent

6. potentadjective

   Antonyms:
   impotent

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1. potent

   Synonyms:
   adequate, advantageous, beneficial, competent, effective, efficient, expedient, powerful, profitable, real, serviceable, solid, sound, substantial, sufficient, useful, valid, valuable, worthy

   Antonyms:
   abortive, baseless, bootless, deceitful, delusive, empty, fruitless, futile, idle, inconstant, ineffectual, nugatory, null, profitless, shadowy, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unimportant, unprofitable, unreal, unsatisfying, unserviceable, unsubstantial, useless, vain, vapid, visionary, worthless

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1. potent

   Synonyms:
   powerful, efficacious, effective, active, strong, energetic

   Antonyms:
   weak, impotent, inefficient, ineffective, inactive, fruitless, inoperative

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1. potent, powerfuladjective

   having great influence

   Synonyms:
   muscular, hefty, stiff, brawny, herculean, virile, sinewy, powerful, strong, knock-down(a)

   Antonyms:
   powerless, impotent, uninfluential, impuissant, ineffectual, ineffective, unable

2. potent, strongadjective

   having or wielding force or authority

   "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"

   Synonyms:
   firm, inviolable, unassailable, stiff, warm, hard, virile, unattackable, solid, impregnable, powerful, strong, secure, substantial

   Antonyms:
   impuissant, ineffectual, impotent, unable, ineffective, powerless, uninfluential

3. potent, strong, stiffadjective

   having a strong physiological or chemical effect

   "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"

   Synonyms:
   stiff, slopped, pissed, steadfast, blind drunk, unfaltering, inviolable, besotted, solid, secure, buckram, warm, unassailable, pixilated, cockeyed, crocked, substantial, powerful, plastered, fuddled, tight, firm, hard, unattackable, soused, soaked, sozzled, virile, squiffy, unbendable, unshakable, blotto, unwavering, rigid, impregnable, pie-eyed, sloshed, smashed, strong, starchy, loaded, wet, steady

   Antonyms:
   uninfluential, ineffective, unable, impotent, powerless, ineffectual, impuissant

4. potent, virileadjective

   (of a male) capable of copulation

   Synonyms:
   manlike, strong, stiff, male, manly, virile, powerful, manful

   Antonyms:
   unable, impotent, ineffectual, powerless, impuissant, ineffective, uninfluential

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1. cogentadjective

   Submitted by Providence on July 16, 2023  

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1. potentadjective

   Synonyms:
   powerful, mighty, forcible, puissant, strong, efficacious, cogent, influential

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1. potentadjective

   Synonyms:
   powerful, forcible, cogent, effective, strong

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1. List of paraphrases for "potent":

   powerful, mighty, strong

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1. Tony Abbott:

   Plainly there are questions to be asked when someone with such a history of infatuation with extremism, violent crime and mental instability should be in possession of a gun license, we have very tough gun laws and I guess we can be pleased that he didn't have a more potent weapon at his disposal. But why did he have a gun license in the first place?

2. James Scott:

   Signature-based malware detection is dead. Machine learning based Artificial Intelligence is the most potent defense the next gen adversary and the mutating hash.

3. Peter Csathy:

   Disney has already announced it will withhold some of its most prized possessions from Netflix. That’s a powerful thing, so if it canbring in X-men and Avatar — and also keep those away from Netflix — thats a potent punch.

4. Park Williams:

   This is important because we have already seen a large change in California wildfire activity from the first 10 %. Increasing the evaporation has exponential effects on wildfires, so the next 10 % increase is likely to have even more potent effects.

5. Tim Soutphommasane:

   In the past, this had its most potent expression in the form of the Fortress Australia immigration policy.