Potent
21potent — adjective 1 having a powerful effect or influence on your body or mind: a particularly potent cider | The film is full of potent images of war. 2 powerful and effective: a potent new weapons system potently adverb see also: impotent …
22potent — adjective 1) a potent political force Syn: powerful, strong, mighty, formidable, influential, dominant, forceful; literary puissant Ant: weak 2) a potent argument Syn …
23potent — adjective 1) a potent political force Syn: powerful, strong, mighty, formidable, influential, dominant 2) a potent argument Syn: forceful, convincing, cogent, compelling, persuasive …
24potent — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ▪ remain ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc …
25potent — 1. fortpflanzungsfähig, fruchtbar, geschlechtsreif, zeugungsfähig. 2. a) einflussreich, gewaltig, mächtig, maßgebend, stark, tonangebend, wichtig, wirkungsreich; (geh. veraltet): großmächtig. b) begütert, bemittelt, finanzkräftig, finanzstark,… …
26potent — [15] Latin posse (source of English posse and possible) meant ‘be able or powerful’. It was a conflation of an earlier verbal phrase potis esse ‘be able’. The precursor of posse was Old Latin *potēre, whose present participle potēns survived to… …
27potent — I po•tent [[t]ˈpoʊt nt[/t]] adj. 1) powerful; mighty 2) cogent; persuasive 3) producing powerful physical or chemical effects: a potent drug[/ex] 4) having or exercising great power or influence 5) (of a male) capable of sexual intercourse •… …
28potent — [15] Latin posse (source of English posse and possible) meant ‘be able or powerful’. It was a conflation of an earlier verbal phrase potis esse ‘be able’. The precursor of posse was Old Latin *potēre, whose present participle potēns survived to… …
29potent — 1. Possessing force, power, strength. 2. Indicating the ability of a primitive cell to differentiate. SEE ALSO: totipotent, pluripotent, unipotent. 3. In psychiatry, possessing sexual potency …
30Potent — Her. A T shape or crutch. The term refers to one of the heraldic furs shown alternately as *argent or azure patches arranged so as to resemble a crutch. Cf. Counter potent …
