Words / B2

POW-uh-fl/ˈpaʊəfl/

Powerful means having great strength, influence, or effect: a powerful lobby; a powerful argument. Strong is everyday; influential is the people-sense twin. A powerful lobby delayed the zone. Power is the noun (already elsewhere). Do not call a mildly useful app powerful.

Meaning

Having great strength, influence, or effect.

Examples

• “A powerful lobby delayed the clean-air zone, the local paper claimed.”
• “A powerful magnet featured in the physics practical, which is the force sense.”

Good to know

a powerful + noun; powerfully. Everyday: strong. People: influential. Noun: power. News, essays, and science. Extreme strength or influence.

Near in meaning

influential

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