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empowered

empowered

46 4.2
Having official power to make decisions
  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • Growth is a dedicated leader empowered to go build the business.

    Tom Ferry

  • In fact, he feels more empowered than ever.

    Academic text (2007)

  • I want my customers to feel strong and empowered in my suits.

  • 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

authorized
vsempowered
123 3.6

Having official permission to do something

is legal conferment of power rather than only permission
sceptered
vsempowered
  • Archaic
1 9.9

Having royal power to rule, shown by holding a long staff called a scepter

is general legal authority given, not specifically sovereign or ceremonial

Antonyms

unempowered
1 7.0

Not able to make decisions or influence things

How Authorized

vested
  • Formal
46 6.9
authorized
123 3.6
empowered
  • Formal
46 4.2
permissible
34 4.1
unauthorized
  • US
106 4.5

Surface Forms

empowered positive

Morphology

empowered = empower (transparent) = em + power + ed

The verb 'empower' is a clear combination of the productive prefix 'em-' and the noun 'power', and adding '-ed' yields the passive/adjectival form 'empowered'.

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'.