Word Meanings - POTENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

have power, fr. potis able, capable + esse to be. See Host a landlord, Am, and cf. Despot, Podesta, 1. Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine. "Harsh and potent injuries." Shak. Moses once more

Additional info about word: POTENT

have power, fr. potis able, capable + esse to be. See Host a landlord, Am, and cf. Despot, Podesta, 1. Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine. "Harsh and potent injuries." Shak. Moses once more his potent rod extends. Milton. 2. Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince. "A potent dukedom." Shak. Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors. Shak. 3. Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument. Cross potent. See Illust. of Cross. Syn. -- Powerful; mighty; puissant; strong; able; efficient; forcible; efficacious; cogent; influential.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POTENT)

• Authoritative
• Decisive
• sure
• conclusive
• authentic
• powerful
• firm
• potent
• dictatorial
• imperious
• arbitrary
• arrogant
• imperative
• dogmatic
• commanding
• Cogent
• Forcible
• strong
• persuasive
• influential
• Effective
• Powerful
• conducive
• operative
• cogent
• telling
• able
• talented
• efficacious
• efficient
• serviceable
• effectual
• Influential
• Potent
• forcible
• controlling
• guiding
• considerable
• Strong
• vigorous
• solid
• secure
• fortified
• impetuous
• hale
• hearty
• brawny
• sinewy
• sound
• robust
• zealous
• pungent muscular
• hardy
• stanch
• tenacious

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of POTENT)

• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to POTENT)

• FORTIFIABLE
  Capable of being fortified. Johnson.
• CONCLUSIVELY
  In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke.
• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• AUTHENTICITY
  1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness. 2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity,
• CONCLUSIVENESS
  The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.
• STANCH
  akin to Pr., Sp., & Pg. estancar, It. stancare to weary, LL. stancare, stagnare, to stanch, fr. L. stagnare to be or make 1. To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. Iron or a stone
• GUIDAGE
  1. The reward given to a guide for services. Ainsworth. 2. Guidance; lead; direction. Southey.
• TALENT
  tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• GUIDABLE
  Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled. Sprat.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• STANCHLESS
  1. Incapable of being stanched, or stopped. 2. Unquenchable; insatiable. Shak.
• ZEALOUS
  1. Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object. He may be zealous in the salvation of souls. Law. 2. Filled with religious zeal. Shak. -- Zeal"ous*ly, adv. -- Zeal"ous*ness, n.
• TELLER
  1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• DECISIVE
  1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam. 2. Marked
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• PATELLULA
  A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• SCUTELLUM
  A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens. The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the
• PINGUIDINOUS
  Containing fat; fatty.
• OMNIPOTENT
  1. Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power. Sir T. More. 2. Having unlimited power
• REFORTIFICATION
  A fortifying anew, or a second time. Mitford.