Potent means really strong, but not like a body builder. Use potent instead to describe things like intense smells, powerful magic potions, and very influential people.
Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious;
Adjective
having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea"
Adjective
(of a male) able to copulate
Adjective S.
having or wielding force or authority; "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"
Adjective S.
having the power to influence or convince; "a cogent analysis of the problem"; "potent arguments"
a.
Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful'
efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
a.
Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant;
mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
a.
Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great
influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
n.
A prince; a potentate.
n.
A staff or crutch.
n.
One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are
supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent
and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
Potent
Moses once more his potent rod extends.2.
Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors.3.
Potent
Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious;
A prince; a potentate.
Usage Examples
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Misspelled Formpotent, opotent, 0potent, lpotent, ootent, 0otent, lotent, pootent, p0otent, plotent, piotent, p9otent, p0otent, ppotent, plotent, pitent, p9tent, p0tent, pptent, pltent, poitent, po9tent, po0tent, poptent, poltent, portent, po5tent, po6tent, poytent, pogtent, porent, po5ent, po6ent, poyent, pogent, potrent, pot5ent, pot6ent, potyent, potgent, potwent, pot3ent, pot4ent, potrent, potsent, potdent, potwnt, pot3nt, pot4nt, potrnt, potsnt, potdnt, potewnt, pote3nt, pote4nt, poternt, potesnt, potednt, potebnt, potehnt, potejnt, potemnt, pote nt, potebt, poteht, potejt, potemt, pote t, potenbt, potenht, potenjt, potenmt, poten t, potenrt, poten5t, poten6t, potenyt, potengt, potenr, poten5, poten6, poteny, poteng, potentr, potent5, potent6, potenty, potentg.
Other Usage ExamplesLeadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Comments