powerful

1. 1.

   (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree

   “the baby is mighty cute”

   “he's mighty tired”

   “it is powerful humid”

   “that boy is powerful big now”

   “they have a right nice place”

   “they rejoiced mightily”

   Synonymsmightymightilyright

   intensifier

Questions about powerful

What does powerful mean?

powerful means "having great power or force or potency or effect". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in powerful?

powerful has 3 syllables: po-wer-ful. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˈpaʊɚfəl/.

What is another word for powerful?

Close synonyms include knock-down, potent, brawny, hefty, muscular. 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.

What is the opposite of powerful?

The recorded antonyms are powerless.

Is powerful a common word?

powerful is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.