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Synonyms for potent
ˈpoʊt ntpo·tent
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
potent
Synonyms:
adequate, advantageous, beneficial, competent, effective, efficient, expedient, powerful, profitable, real, serviceable, solid, sound, substantial, sufficient, useful, valid, valuable, worthyAntonyms:
abortive, baseless, bootless, deceitful, delusive, empty, fruitless, futile, idle, inconstant, ineffectual, nugatory, null, profitless, shadowy, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unimportant, unprofitable, unreal, unsatisfying, unserviceable, unsubstantial, useless, vain, vapid, visionary, worthless
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
potent
Synonyms:
powerful, efficacious, effective, active, strong, energeticAntonyms:
weak, impotent, inefficient, ineffective, inactive, fruitless, inoperative
Princeton's WordNet
potent, powerfuladjective
having great influence
Synonyms:
muscular, hefty, stiff, brawny, herculean, virile, sinewy, powerful, strong, knock-down(a)Antonyms:
powerless, impotent, uninfluential, impuissant, ineffectual, ineffective, unablepotent, strongadjective
having or wielding force or authority
"providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"
Synonyms:
firm, inviolable, unassailable, stiff, warm, hard, virile, unattackable, solid, impregnable, powerful, strong, secure, substantialAntonyms:
impuissant, ineffectual, impotent, unable, ineffective, powerless, uninfluentialpotent, strong, stiffadjective
having a strong physiological or chemical effect
"a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"
Synonyms:
stiff, slopped, pissed, steadfast, blind drunk, unfaltering, inviolable, besotted, solid, secure, buckram, warm, unassailable, pixilated, cockeyed, crocked, substantial, powerful, plastered, fuddled, tight, firm, hard, unattackable, soused, soaked, sozzled, virile, squiffy, unbendable, unshakable, blotto, unwavering, rigid, impregnable, pie-eyed, sloshed, smashed, strong, starchy, loaded, wet, steadyAntonyms:
uninfluential, ineffective, unable, impotent, powerless, ineffectual, impuissantpotent, virileadjective
(of a male) capable of copulation
Synonyms:
manlike, strong, stiff, male, manly, virile, powerful, manfulAntonyms:
unable, impotent, ineffectual, powerless, impuissant, ineffective, uninfluential
Editors Contribution
cogentadjective
Submitted by Providence on July 16, 2023
Dictionary of English Synonymes
potentadjective
Synonyms:
powerful, mighty, forcible, puissant, strong, efficacious, cogent, influential
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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#212 | real | |
#596 | hard | |
#803 | sound | |
#954 | active | |
#1068 | effective | |
#1210 | male | |
#1300 | secure | |
#1340 | strong | |
#1412 | useful | |
#1442 | valid | |
#1854 | firm | |
#2159 | solid | |
#2389 | powerful | |
#3208 | wet | |
#3315 | efficient | |
#3359 | warm | |
#3614 | sufficient | |
#3986 | tight | |
#4080 | valuable | |
#4434 | substantial | |
#4555 | adequate | |
#4886 | loaded | |
#7181 | steady | |
#7810 | mighty | |
#7883 | beneficial | |
#8085 | worthy | |
#9018 | competent | |
#10437 | profitable | |
#11182 | rigid | |
#12588 | stiff | |
#13929 | muscular | |
#14373 | energetic | |
#15642 | potent | |
#16282 | pissed | |
#21291 | soaked | |
#22982 | manly | |
#23212 | advantageous | |
#26251 | smashed | |
#27828 | hefty | |
#34267 | expedient | |
#35251 | steadfast | |
#44203 | serviceable | |
#50305 | plastered | |
#52249 | unwavering | |
#54598 | efficacious | |
#87863 | starchy | |
#90077 | herculean | |
#94896 | inviolable | |
#97932 | virile | |
#99347 | unassailable | |
#102036 | brawny | |
#105666 | impregnable | |
#107208 | unshakable | |
#124399 | buckram | |
#146164 | sinewy | |
#147412 | besotted | |
#149523 | cockeyed | |
#173612 | sloshed | |
#193776 | blotto | |
#231163 | pixilated | |
#236960 | unfaltering | |
#268320 | slopped | |
#312870 | soused |
How to use potent in a sentence?
Late last year, multiple news organizations reported that mobile phones used by U.S. diplomats in Uganda had been compromised by NASA's Pegasus tool, it is my belief that we are very likely looking at the tip of the iceberg and that other U.S. government personnel have had their devices compromised, whether by a nation state using NSA services or tools offered by one of its lesser known but equally potent competitors.
The ACCC has long said ... that the most potent deterrent for cartel conduct is a potential jail term, i don't think it's a sudden decision to ramp up, just that it's taken a long time to find conduct for proceeding criminally.
The words 'I am...' are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
If you think carfentanil is scary, there are actually compounds in the literature that are more potent, a lethal dose is not even visible to the eye.
Plainly there are questions to be asked when someone with such a history of infatuation with extremism, violent crime and mental instability should be in possession of a gun license, we have very tough gun laws and I guess we can be pleased that he didn't have a more potent weapon at his disposal. But why did he have a gun license in the first place?
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