potently

1. 1.

   in a manner having a powerful influence

   “Clytemnestra's ghost crying in the night for vengeance remained most potently in the audience's mind”

   Synonymspowerfully

Questions about potently

What does potently mean?

potently means "in a manner having a powerful influence".

How many syllables are in potently?

potently has 3 syllables: po-tent-ly. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for potently?

Close synonyms include powerfully. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is potently a common word?

potently is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.