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Mighty vs Beyond - What's the difference?

mighty | beyond |

As nouns the difference between mighty and beyond

is that mighty is influential, powerful beings or mighty can be (obsolete|rare) a warrior of great strength and courage while beyond is the unknown.

As adverbs the difference between mighty and beyond

is that mighty is (colloquial) very; to a high degree while beyond is farther along or away.

As an adjective mighty

is very strong; possessing might.

As a preposition beyond is

further away than.

mighty

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • Influential, powerful beings.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty', or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the ' mighty so far.}}

    Noun

    (mighties)
  • (obsolete, rare) A warrior of great strength and courage.
  • * Bible , 1 Chronicles 11:12, King James Version:
  • And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Very strong; possessing might.
  • He's a mighty wrestler, but you are faster than him.
  • * Bible, Job ix. 4
  • Wise in heart, and mighty in strength.
  • Very heavy and powerful.
  • Thor swung his mighty hammer.
    He gave the ball a mighty hit.
  • Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
  • * Bible, Matthew xi. 20
  • His mighty works
  • * Hawthorne
  • Mighty was their fuss about little matters.
  • (informal) Excellent, extremely good.
  • Tonight's a mighty opportunity to have a party.
    She's a mighty cook.

    Derived terms

    * high and mighty

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (colloquial) Very; to a high degree.
  • You can leave that food in your locker for the weekend, but it's going to smell mighty bad when you come back on Monday.
    Pork chops boiled with turnip greens makes a mighty fine meal.
  • * Samuel Pepys
  • The lady is not heard of, and the King mighty angry and the Lord sent to the Tower.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
  • I was mighty glad that our entrance into the interior of Caprona had been inside a submarine rather than in any other form of vessel. I could readily understand how it might have been that Caprona had been invaded in the past by venturesome navigators without word of it ever reaching the outside world, for I can assure you that only by submarine could man pass up that great sluggish river, alive.

    beyond

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Further away than.
  • On the far side of.
  • Later than; after.
  • Greater than; so as to exceed or surpass.
  • :
  • In addition to.
  • Past, or out of reach of.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Moldova 0-5 England , passage=England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.}}

    See also

    * para-

    Synonyms

    * ayond * ayont

    Antonyms

    * before * earlier

    Derived terms

    * beyond a reasonable doubt * beyond compare * beyond doubt * beyond one's ken * beyond question * beyond recognition * beyond the black stump * beyond the pale

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Farther along or away.
  • In addition; more.
  • Synonyms

    * ayond, ayont (obsolete)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The unknown.
  • The hereafter.
  • Derived terms

    * back of beyond * great beyond

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