powerful
/ˈpaʊəfʊl/
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American sound/ˈpaʊəfʊl/
powerful
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po - wer - ful -> powerful
Myanmar meaning
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(က) အားကောင်းသော။ ပြင်းထန်သော။ ဩဇာပြည့်လျှမ်းသော။ a powerful explosion ❍ a powerful engine/ motor bike/ computer ❍ a powerful voice.
(ခ) အာနိသင်ကောင်းသော။ အစွမ်းထက်သော။ ပြင်းပြသော။ a powerful image/ drug/ speech ❍ a powerful feeling of regret/ sympathy/ anger.
(ဂ) ခွန်အားရှိသော။ ဗလကောင်း သော။ သန်မာသော။ powerful muscles.
(ဃ) အင်အား ကြီးမားသော။ ဩဇာတိက္ကမ ကြီးသော။ a powerful enemy/ nation/ organization/ ruler.
❏ powerfully /-fǝli/ adv အားကောင်းမောင်းသန် (ရှိသည်)။ တုတ်ခိုင်သန်စွမ်းစွာ (ရှိသည်)။ စွမ်းစွမ်းတမံ။ He is powerfully built (ie has a large strong body).
More examples
- The powerful farming lobby is pressurizing the government to change the law.
- Recent events are a powerful argument for gun control.
- A powerful man
- You need powerful muscles for this.
- A powerful nuclear weapon
- A powerful punch
- They have installed a more powerful engine in the new model.
- A powerful fighting force
- Reports show that nicotine is more powerful than cocaine.
- A powerful rotten-egg smell
Synonyms
influential, commanding, authoritative, controlling, prevailing, dominant, potent, great, able, add fuel to fire, all-powerful, almighty, authoritarian, brawny, but good, by all means, capable, cogent, compelling, competent, convincing, crushing, curiously, decidedly, decisively, deep, determinedly, distinct, drastically, dynamic, effective, effectual, efficacious, eloquent, emotive, energetic, enormously, evocative, exceedingly, exorbitantly, extremely, for a fact, forceful, forcible, formidable, hard, haunting, highly, hugely, immensely, immoderately, impressive, in a marked degree, in control, in spades, in the saddle, inordinately, intense, make firm, mighty, moving, mucho, muscular, no catch, no holds barred, no ifs ands or buts, no mistake, no strings attached, nth degree, omnipotent, overpowering, overruling, overwhelming, paramount, persuasive, preeminent, prohibitively, puissant, pungent, remarkably, robust, ruling, sinewy, so much, sovereign, stalwart, straight out, strapping, strengthen, strengthy, strikingly, strong, sturdy, superlatively, supreme, supremely, surpassingly, surprisingly, telling, terrifically, to nth degree, tone up, toned, toning, unequivocally, unmistakably, unusually, upper hand, very much, vigorous, violent, vitally, weighty, wicked, wieldy
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