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Powerful vs Greater - What's the difference?

powerful | greater |

As adjectives the difference between powerful and greater

is that powerful is having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence while greater is (great).

powerful

English

Alternative forms

* powerfull * powreful * powrefull

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • The powerful grace that lies / In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
  • (mining) Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.

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    greater

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (great)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
    • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.}}
  • Used in referring to a region or place together with the surrounding area ; (of a city) metropolitan.
  • * 1990 , Geza Peter Lauter & Chikara Higashi, Internationalization of the Japanese Economy , ISBN 0792390520, p. 285
  • *:more than 25 percent of the country's population live there.
  • * 1997 , Virginia Boucher, Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook , ISBN 0838906672, p. 98
  • *:located in the greater Midwest.
  • * 2004 , Richard Alan Meckel & Heather Munro Prescott, Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide , ISBN 0313330417, p. 201
    • The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties.

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