Definition of Powerful

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Powerful

Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.

Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.

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Powerful Quotations

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
Barack Obama

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Kahlil Gibran

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David Thoreau

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao Tzu

Powerful Translations

powerful in Dutch is machtig
powerful in French is salement
powerful in Italian is poderoso, valido
powerful in Latin is valens, validus, imperiosus, lacertosus, polleo
powerful in Portuguese is poderoso
powerful in Spanish is poderoso, poderioso

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