powerfully

pow·er·ful  (pour-fl)

adj.

1. Having or capable of exerting power.

2. Effective or potent: a powerful drug.

3. Chiefly Upper Southern U.S. Great: "[Everybody had] a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free grace and preforeordestination, and I don't know what all" (Mark Twain).

adv. Chiefly Upper Southern U.S.

Very: It was powerful humid.

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power·ful·ly adv.

power·ful·ness n.

Regional Note: In the Upper Southern United States the words powerful and mighty are intensives used frequently in the same way as very: Your boy's grown powerful big. The new baby is mighty purty. Powerful is used as an adjective in some expressions: The storm did a powerful lot of harm. In the same dialect region the noun power has, in addition to its standard meaning, the sense of "a large number or amount." This sense appears in the Oxford English Dictionary as common in dialectal British English of the 18th and 19th centuries: "It has done a power of work" (Charles Dickens). All these derivative senses of power and might take advantage of the notion of strength inherent in these nouns, making them natural intensives. Colloquial English is always on the lookout for ways to make language more vivid with new intensives. We think of the Upper Southern part of the United States as linguistically conservative, but in fact it has preserved uses of power, powerful, and mighty that were innovative in their time.

Thesaurus

Adv.	1.	powerfully - in a powerful manner; "the federal government replaced the powerfully pro-settler Sir Godfrey Huggins with the even tougher and more determined ex-trade unionist" strongly
	2.	powerfully - in a manner having a powerful influence; "Clytemnestra's ghost crying in the night for vengeance remained most potently in the audience's mind" potently

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powerfully

adverb strongly, hard, vigorously, forcibly, forcefully, mightily, with might and main He shot powerfully from 20 yards and scored.

Translations

powerfully [ˈpaʊəfəlɪ] ADV [affect] → profundamente; [speak, argue, express] → de forma convincente; [hit, strike] → con fuerza
it smelled powerfully of sage → tenía un fuerte olor a salvia
to be powerfully built → ser fornido, ser de complexión fuerte

powerfully [ˈpaʊə^rf^ʊli] adv

(= to a high degree) [affected, reinforced] → puissamment; [alcoholic, addictive] → puissamment; [effective] → puissamment
powerfully persuasive → d'une grande force de persuasion

(= with force) → avec force
He presented his arguments powerfully → Il présenta ses arguments avec force.
powerfully acted → puissamment interprété

(= strongly) powerfully flavoured → au parfum puissant
to smell powerfully of sth → dégager une puissante odeur de qch
powerfully built powerfully-built adj → puissamment bâti(e)
power game n → jeu m de pouvoir, jeu m de pouvoirs

powerfully

adv

(= strongly) influence → mächtig, gewaltig, stark; reinforce → massiv, gewaltig; moving → mächtig, stark; erotic → stark; a powerfully addictive drug → eine stark Sucht erregende Droge; the room smelled powerfully of cats → der Katzengeruch in dem Raum war überwältigend; powerfully built → kräftig gebaut

(fig) speak → kraftvoll; describe, act → mitreißend, kraftvoll; argue → massiv (inf); powerfully written → mitreißend geschrieben; I was powerfully affected by the book → das Buch hat mich mächtig (inf) → or stark beeindruckt

powerfully [ˈpaʊəfəlɪ] adv to be powerfully built → essere di costituzione robusta

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powerfully [ˈpaʊəfəlɪ] adv to be powerfully built → essere di costituzione robusta