powerful
part of speech
adjective (powerful, more powerful, most powerful)
meaning for a pupil
1) Very strong; having a lot of strength or force. tree →
2) Having great control or influence over people: a powerful king. tree →
3) Having a strong effect: a powerful medicine, a powerful speech. tree →
4) (of machines) Able to do a lot of work: a powerful engine. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons, powerful magnets, engines and storms. In history and stories, powerful rulers and wizards. In writing lessons, a powerful sentence moves the reader. Phrases: powerful enough, a powerful voice.
examples
- The lion has powerful jaws. tree →
- The king was the most powerful man in the land. tree →
- That was a powerful speech; some people cried. tree →
- A powerful storm knocked down trees. tree →
- This magnet is more powerful than that one. tree →
- The wizard cast a powerful spell. tree →
- "That was a powerful speech," thought the little Toad. tree →
note
Comparative: more powerful, most powerful. Adverb: powerfully. Opposite: weak, powerless. Noun: power. In maths and physics, «power» also means the rate of doing work, and 2 to the power 3 means 2 × 2 × 2.
In the corpora
- Some worries are big too, and many clever people are working to make powerful AI safe.
- Whether such paintings are great art is argued: some say they are powerful in real life, others say they are a joke.
- Zebras defend themselves with powerful kicks and bites that can badly injure a lion, and they have never been tamed like horses.
- Cave hyenas cracked bones with powerful jaws and dragged them to their dens, which scientists find by gnawed bones and fossil droppings.
- He has heard that a new, extra-powerful motor-car is arriving at Toad Hall this very morning.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «powerful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.