potent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English potent, borrowed from Latin potens, potentis (“powerful, strong, potent”), present participle of posse (“to be able”), from potis (“able, powerful, originally a lord, master”).
Inflected forms:
form: more potent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most potent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: potents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Powerful; possessing power; effective.
pos: adj
examples: harsh and potent injuries
Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
When the party reach the bridegroom's house on their return, his mother and the other women come out, and burn a little mustard and human hair in a lamp, the unpleasant smell emitted by these articles being considered potent to drive away evil spirits.
Still today, 400 years on, they remain potent wounds indeed: “When I think of what Oñate did to the Acoma Pueblo,” said a member of Sandia Pueblo in 1998 during the fourth centennial of his conquest, “I have a vision of Indian men lined up to have one foot cut off.”
gloss: Powerful; possessing power; effective.
pos: adj
examples: a potent argument
Moses once more his potent rod extends.
Moreover, her going was a sufficient reason for Hortense accompanying her; and Mazarin hoped as much from her beautiful face as from all the other potent reasons with which he had charged his negotiators.
gloss: Powerful; possessing power; effective.
pos: adj
examples: a potent drink; a potent solvent; a potent medicine
Richardson took over, and Mitchell proceeded to the refreshment room in his turn, but when he came back some ten minutes later, it was evident that he had been indulging in something more potent than coffee, and he was in a very muddled state.
gloss: Able to procreate.
pos: adj
gloss: Able to differentiate.
pos: adj
gloss: A prince; a potentate.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Cry, havock , kings! back to the stained field, You equal potents
gloss: A staff or crutch.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes.
pos: noun
Antonyms: impotent
counterpotent
Related words: cross potent
potence
potency
potentate
potential
potentiality
potentiate
potenty
potente
Derived words: biopotent
bipotent
immunopotent
monopotent
nullipotent
overpotent
polypotent
potentiary
potentization
potentize
potently
potentness
potent potable
repotentise
subpotent
superpotent
ultrapotent
counter-potent
cross potent
equipotent
idempotent
multipotent
nilpotent
oligopotent
omnipotent
pluripotent
totipotent
unipotent
ventripotent
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: силен
roman: silen
lang: Finnish
word: voimakas
lang: Finnish
word: tehokas
lang: Finnish
word: vahva
lang: Finnish
word: potentti
lang: French
word: puissant
lang: Italian
word: potente
lang: Latin
word: potens
lang: Macedonian
word: си́лен
roman: sílen
lang: Middle English
word: vertuous
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: effektfull
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: virkningsfull
lang: Portuguese
word: potente
lang: Romanian
word: potent
lang: Spanish
word: potente
lang: Spanish
word: viripotente