Potent vs Mighty - What's the difference?
potent | mighty |
Possessing strength.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
Being effective, causing body effects.
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Having a sharp or offensive taste.
(lb) Able to procreate.
Very powerful or effective.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:harsh and potent injuries
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Moses once more his potent rod extends.
(tincture) A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes.
(obsolete) A prince; a potentate.
(obsolete) A staff or crutch.
Influential, powerful beings.
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, title= (obsolete, rare) A warrior of great strength and courage.
* Bible , 1 Chronicles 11:12, King James Version:
Very strong; possessing might.
* Bible, Job ix. 4
Very heavy and powerful.
Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
* Bible, Matthew xi. 20
* Hawthorne
(informal) Excellent, extremely good.
(colloquial) Very; to a high degree.
* Samuel Pepys
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
As adjectives the difference between potent and mighty
is that potent is possessing strength while mighty is very strong; possessing might.As nouns the difference between potent and mighty
is that potent is a heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes while mighty is influential, powerful beings.As an adverb mighty is
very; to a high degree.potent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
Antonyms
* impotentDerived terms
* idempotent * nilpotent * unipotent * (l)External links
* * ----mighty
English
Noun
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Noun
(mighties)- And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties .
Adjective
(er)- He's a mighty wrestler, but you are faster than him.
- Wise in heart, and mighty in strength.
- Thor swung his mighty hammer.
- He gave the ball a mighty hit.
- His mighty works
- Mighty was their fuss about little matters.
- Tonight's a mighty opportunity to have a party.
- She's a mighty cook.
Derived terms
* high and mightyAdverb
(-)- 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.
- The lady is not heard of, and the King mighty angry and the Lord sent to the Tower.
- 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.