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powerful

adj
/ˈpaʊəfl̩/UK/ˈpaʊɚfl̩/US

Etymology

From Middle English pouerful, powarfull. By surface analysis, power + -ful.

  1. inherited from pouerful

Definitions

  1. Having, or capable of exerting, power or influence.

    • The powerful grace that lies / In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.
    • [T]he ſubſtance of gold is indeed invincible by the povverfulleſt action of natural heat, […]

  2. Leading to many or important deductions.

    • a powerful set of postulates
    • a powerful theorem

  3. Large

    Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Being a powerful number.

    2. very

      very; extremely

      • "She was stinkin' hot down here that summer, an' we were powerful dry."

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Derived

all-powerful, nonpowerful, overpowerful, powerfully, powerfulness, powerful owl, semipowerful, superpowerful, ultrapowerful, unpowerful

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at powerful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at powerful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at powerful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA