Puissant

Adjective

 * 1) Powerful, mighty, having authority.
 * 2) * 1599 — Shakespeare, Hen V i 2
 * Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, / And with your puissant arm renew their feats.
 * 1) * 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost Book I
 * For who can yet believe, though after loss, That all these puissant legions, whose exile Hath emptied Heaven, shall fail to re-ascend, Self-raised, and repossess their native seat?
 * 1) * 1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels Part I, ch. v
 * I cried in a loud voice, "Long live the most puissant king of Lilliput!"
 * 1) * 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick
 * How comes all this, if there be not something puissant in whaling?
 * 1) * 1961 - Robert A. Heinlein, ''Stranger in a Strange Land
 * In fact the titles could be anything-or (with some of the most puissant) no title at all...

Thesaurus
absolute, armipotent, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, beefy, bouncing, clothed with authority, cogent, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, controlling, dominant, doughty, duly constituted, dynamic, effective, eminent, empowered, energetic, ex officio, forceful, forcible, forcy, full-blooded, full-strength, governing, great, gutsy, gutty, hale, hard, hard as nails, hardy, hearty, hefty, hegemonic, hegemonistic, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension, husky, imperative, important, in force, in power, influential, iron-hard, irresistible, leading, lusty, mighty, mighty in battle, momentous, monocratic, nervy, obstinate, official, operative, potent, powerful, preeminent, prepotent, prestigious, prominent, ranking, red-blooded, robust, robustious, rugged, ruling, senior, stalwart, steely, stout, strapping, striking, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, substantial, superior, supreme, telling, totalitarian, valid, vigorous, vital, weighty

Etymology
, from posse, "be able" < potis, "able".

Translations

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 * Ido: povo; potenteso
 * Russian:

Related terms

 * puissance

Anagrams

 * snapsuit

Adjective

 * 1) powerful; mighty

Adjective

 * 1) powerful; mighty

Etymology
From potens:, potentis.

Related terms

 * pouvoir
 * puissance

Adjective

 * 1) powerful; mighty