pow·er·ful

(pou′ər-fəl)

adj.

1. Having or capable of exerting power.

2. Effective or potent: a powerful drug.

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

adv. Chiefly Upper Southern US

Very: It was powerful humid.

pow′er·ful·ly adv.

pow′er·ful·ness n.

Our Living Language 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 1700s and 1800s: "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.

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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

powerfully

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

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powerfully

adverb

With intense energy and force:

energetically, forcefully, forcibly, hard, vigorously.

Idioms: hammer and tongs, tooth and nail, with might and main.

Translations

بِقُوَّه

mocně

magtfuldt

mächtig

puissamment

á öflugan hátt

güçle

有力地

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

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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 qchpowerfully built powerfully-built adj → puissamment bâti(e)power game n → jeu m de pouvoir, jeu m de pouvoirs

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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

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powerfully

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

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power

(ˈpauə) noun

1. (an) ability. A witch has magic power; A cat has the power of seeing in the dark; He no longer has the power to walk.

2. strength, force or energy. muscle power; water-power; (also adjective) a power tool (=a tool operated by electricity etc. not by hand).

3. authority or control. political groups fighting for power; How much power does the Queen have?; I have him in my power at last

4. a right belonging to eg a person in authority. The police have the power of arrest.

5. a person with great authority or influence. He is quite a power in the town.

6. a strong and influential country. the Western powers.

7. the result obtained by multiplying a number by itself a given number of times. 2  2  2 or 2³ is the third power of 2, or 2 to the power of 3.

ˈpowered adjective

supplied with mechanical power. The machine is powered by electricity; an electrically-powered machine.

ˈpowerful adjective

having great strength, influence etc. a powerful engine; He's powerful in local politics.

ˈpowerfully adverb

ˈpowerfulness noun

ˈpowerless adjective

having no power. The king was powerless to prevent the execution.

ˈpowerlessness noun

power cut/failure

a break in the electricity supply. We had a power cut last night.

ˌpower-ˈdriven adjective

worked by electricity or other mechanical means, not by hand.

power point

a socket on a wall etc into which an electric plug can be fitted.

power station

a building where electricity is produced.

be in power

(of a political party) to be the governing party.