Mighty

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mighty \Might"y\, n.; pl. {Mighties}.
     A warrior of great force and courage. [R. & Obs.] --1 Chron.
     xi. 12.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Mighty \Might"y\, adv.
     In a great degree; very. [Colloq.] "He was mighty
     methodical." --Jeffrey.
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           We have a mighty pleasant garden.        --Doddridge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mighty \Might"y\, a. [Compar. {Mightier}; superl. {Mightiest}.]
     [AS. meahtig, mihtig; akin to G. m[aum]chtig, Goth. mahteigs.
     See {Might}, n.]
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     1. Possessing might; having great power or authority.
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              Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. --Job ix. 4.
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     2. Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
        "His mighty works." --Matt. xi. 20.
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     3. Denoting an extraordinary degree or quality in respect of
        size, character, importance, consequences, etc. "A mighty
        famine." --Luke xv. 14. "Giants of mighty bone." --Milton.
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              Mighty was their fuss about little matters.
                                                    --Hawthorne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mighty
       adj : having or showing great strength or force or intensity;
             "struck a mighty blow"; "the mighty logger Paul
             Bunyan"; "the pen is mightier than the sword"-
             Bulwer-Lytton
       adv : (Southern regional intensive) very; "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" [syn: {powerful}, {right}]
       [also: {mightiest}, {mightier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  207 Moby Thesaurus words for "mighty":
     Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
     Homeric, able-bodied, absolute, abysmal, aggrandized, almighty,
     apotheosized, armipotent, ascendant, astronomic, august,
     authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, awesome,
     awfully, beatified, beefy, big, bouncing, brawny, bulky, burly,
     canonized, clothed with authority, cogent, colossal, commanding,
     competent, comprehensive, consequential, considerable, controlling,
     deep, deified, dominant, doughty, duly constituted, dynamic,
     effective, elephantine, elevated, eminent, empowered, energetic,
     ennobled, enormous, enshrined, enthroned, epic, ex officio,
     exalted, exceedingly, excellent, exhaustive, extremely, forceful,
     forcible, forcy, full, full-blooded, full-strength, giant,
     giantlike, gigantic, glorified, governing, grand, grave, great,
     gutsy, gutty, hale, hard, hard as nails, hardy, hearty, heavy,
     hefty, hegemonic, hegemonistic, held in awe, heroic, high,
     high and mighty, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure,
     high-tension, huge, hugely, husky, illustrious, immense, immortal,
     immortalized, imperative, important, imposing, impressive,
     in force, in power, indomitable, infinite, influential, intense,
     iron-hard, irresistible, jumbo, just, large, leading, lofty, lusty,
     magnified, main, mammoth, massive, maximum, mightily,
     mighty in battle, momentous, monocratic, monster, monstrous,
     monumental, mountainous, moving, muscular, nervy, obstinate,
     official, only too, operative, plenary, potent, powerful,
     powerfully, predominant, preeminent, prepotent, prestigious,
     pretty, prodigious, profound, prominent, puissant, quite, ranking,
     rattling, real, really, red-blooded, renowned, right, robust,
     robustious, rugged, ruling, sainted, sanctified, senior, serious,
     shrined, so, stalwart, steely, stout, strapping, striking, strong,
     strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, stupendous,
     sturdy, sublime, substantial, supereminent, superior, supreme,
     surpassingly, telling, terribly, terrifically, throned, titanic,
     total, totalitarian, towering, tremendous, valid, vast, very,
     vigorous, vital, weighty, well-built, whacking, whopping, wieldy