empowered
5
4.2
- adjective
- /ɪmˈpaʊərd/
- Formal
:
empoderado
- After completing the training, the employees felt empowered to take on new responsibilities.
- feel empowered
- more empowered
Growth is a dedicated leader empowered to go build the business.
- Growth is a dedicated leader empowered to go build the business.
- And so we would edit keywords and deface keywords with these empowered accounts.
Examples
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Rather than passive agents, girls are increasingly represented as active and empowered.
Academic text (2018) -
She was empowered by the new legislation to advocate for her community's rights.
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Growth is a dedicated leader empowered to go build the business.
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In fact, he feels more empowered than ever.
Academic text (2007) -
I want my customers to feel strong and empowered in my suits.
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I made my own laundry soap today, and I feel so empowered!
Blog text (18) -
After I got married and got my GED, I felt so empowered...
Blog text (17) -
When Larnee created the blog on her own, she felt empowered and useful.
Academic text (2015) -
The other finding is that church attenders in Costa Rica tend to feel more politically empowered than nonattenders.
Academic text (1999) -
Empowered and knowledgeable teachers can begin to create exemplary units of study integrating online literacy.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
1
3.6
Having official permission to do something
Having royal power to rule, shown by holding a long staff called a scepter
Antonyms
How Authorized
- Formal
3
6.9
1
3.6
- Formal
5
4.2
37
4.1
- US
110
4.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Empowered comes from the prefix em- (a form that means 'make' or 'put into') and the word power ('ability' or 'authority'), so it literally means 'made powerful'.