Synonyms for powerful
ˈpaʊ ər fəlpow·er·ful

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1. powerfuladjective

   Antonyms:
   powerless

2. powerfuladjective

   Antonyms:
   powerless

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. powerful

   Synonyms:
   adequate, advantageous, beneficial, competent, effective, efficient, expedient, potent, 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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 3 votes

1. powerful

   Synonyms:
   strong, potent, puissant, masterful, mighty

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 4 votes

1. powerfuladjective

   having great power or force or potency or effect

   "the most powerful government in western Europe"; "his powerful arms"; "a powerful bomb"; "the horse's powerful kick"; "powerful drugs"; "a powerful argument"

   Synonyms:
   herculean, hefty, knock-down(a), potent, muscular, brawny, sinewy

   Antonyms:
   weak, low-powered, helpless, powerless, feeble, uninfluential, nerveless, incapacitated, subhuman

2. knock-down(a), powerfuladjective

   strong enough to knock down or overwhelm

   "a knock-down blow"

   Antonyms:
   nerveless, feeble, uninfluential, helpless, weak, subhuman, powerless, incapacitated, low-powered

3. potent, powerfuladjective

   having great influence

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

   Antonyms:
   subhuman, low-powered, powerless, feeble, weak, uninfluential, nerveless, helpless, incapacitated

4. brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewyadjective

   (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful

   "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms"

   Synonyms:
   brawny, potent, unchewable, sizable, sizeable, stringy, hefty, fibrous, healthy, mesomorphic, tendinous, respectable, sinewy, knock-down(a), goodly, goodish, herculean, muscular, tidy

   Antonyms:
   feeble, weak, uninfluential, subhuman, incapacitated, helpless, nerveless, powerless, low-powered

5. herculean, powerfuladverb

   displaying superhuman strength or power

   "herculean exertions"

   Synonyms:
   potent, muscular, hefty, brawny, herculean, sinewy, knock-down(a)

   Antonyms:
   weak, incapacitated, powerless, feeble, nerveless, helpless, subhuman, uninfluential, low-powered

6. mighty, mightily, powerful, rightadverb

   (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree

   "the baby is mighty cute"; "he's mighty tired"; "it is powerful humid"; "that boy is powerful big now"; "they have a right nice place"; "they rejoiced mightily"

   Synonyms:
   properly, the right way, correctly, in good order, decently, justly, flop, right, mighty, mightily, right on, aright, decent

   Antonyms:
   incapacitated, uninfluential, nerveless, powerless, weak, feeble, low-powered, subhuman, helpless

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. kickassadjective

   kickass is slang but i need some synonyms

   that was a kickass speech

   Submitted by Revcrp on June 25, 2022  

2. strongish

   i was powerful at tennis.

   Submitted by rinat on August 11, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. powerfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   mighty, potent, active, forcible, puissant, potential

2. powerfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   vigorous, robust, sturdy, strong, able-bodied

3. powerfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   efficacious, effective, cogent, valid

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1. powerfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   mighty, potent, drastic, efficacious, intense, strong, dynamic, puissant, effective, omnipotent, armipotent, stentorian, invincible, cogent, commanding

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1. List of paraphrases for "powerful":

   potent, strong, mighty, influential, forceful, robust, vigorous, effective, powerfui, loud, fort, solid

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1. Phaedrus:

   An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

2. Charles Gladden:

   I work for the most powerful people in the country and there I am sleeping at a subway stop.

3. Jeff Rea:

   That building sat as a powerful reminder. We hoped we would get back that major employer that would fix our economy.

4. Charles Robert Darwin:

   The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

5. Tim Donnelly:

   The SB277 Referendum was sabotaged from without and within by powerful forces from its very inception.