Powerfully

3 definitions found

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

  Powerful \Pow"er*ful\, a.
     1. 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.
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              The powerful grace that lies
              In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. (Mining) Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.
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     Syn: Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious;
          energetic; intense.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Pow"er*ful*ly}, adv. --
          {Pow"er*ful*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  powerfully
       adv 1: in a powerful manner; "the federal government replaced the
              powerfully pro-settler Sir Godfrey Huggins with the
              even tougher and more determined ex-trade unionist"
              [syn: {strongly}]
       2: in a manner having a powerful influence; "Clytemnestra's
          ghost crying in the night for vengeance remained most
          potently in the audience's mind" [syn: {potently}]

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

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "powerfully":
     almighty, ardently, authoritatively, awfully, cogently,
     commandingly, consequentially, deafeningly, dynamically,
     effectively, effectually, eloquently, energetically, ex cathedra,
     exceedingly, expressively, fervently, firmly, fluently, forcefully,
     forcibly, glibly, glowingly, graphically, hardly, heartily,
     imperatively, imperviously, impregnably, impressively,
     in glowing terms, intensely, invincibly, invulnerably,
     irresistibly, just, loudly, lustily, meaningfully, might and main,
     mightily, mighty, momentously, officially, only too, passionately,
     potently, powerful, pretty, productively, puissantly, pungently,
     quite, real, really, resistantly, right, robustly, ruggedly,
     smoothly, so, soundly, spiritedly, stalwartly, staunchly, stoutly,
     strikingly, strongly, sturdily, tellingly, terribly, terrifically,
     to good account, to good purpose, unyieldingly, vehemently, very,
     vigorously, vividly, warmly, weightily, with a vengeance,
     with authority, with telling effect