potent
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5.5
- adjective
- /ˈpoʊtnt/
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potente
- The medicine is particularly potent in treating severe headaches.
- most potent
- a potent weapon
- a potent threat
So it's called potent brain and body fuel.
- So it's called potent brain and body fuel.
- I think it's just tremendously potent, responsive, quick, smooth.
- And so there was, this was a very, very potent musical region.
- It's many, many times more potent than opium or morphine.
- So, OK, now this contains A potent blend of salicylic acid.
- So this is the most potent way to tell a great story.
- And they have no idea how potent and dangerous that that tool is.
- Like that's really a potent and powerful way to approach it.
- It's not as potent so maybe it was the wrong drug.
- You mean how, how potent is the design and concept?
- ATP and ADP are dramatically potent vasodilators.
Examples
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Vodka, I knew, had the most potent alcohol content of any available drink.
Fiction book (1997) -
Audio podcasts represent a particularly potent tool for use in music education.
Academic text (2013) -
So this is the most potent way to tell a great story.
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Like that is so strange and yet so potent to understand.
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It's much more potent now than it was then.
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So we need to find ways to make this new very potent effect safe.
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But reality was much more potent than any dream he had ever had.
Fiction book (2001) -
Personal contact and the impression it creates can be a potent factor in your candidacy.
Academic text (1991) -
The political situation demanded action, and the potent effect of the spare-parts scandal pointed the way.
Academic text (1991) -
In fact, alcohol is one of the most potent suppressors of REM sleep.
Synonyms
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1.0
Very concentrated in taste or effect
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3.0
Having great influence over people and events
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4.6
Able to change what people think or do
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3.0
Beginning to be used from a particular date
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4.8
Having a strong effect on people or things
Having a strong effect on people or situations
Very good at making something work much better than usual
Antonyms
Compounds
How Potent
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word potent comes from the Latin potens, meaning 'powerful' or 'able', from posse 'to be able'. You can see the same idea in English words like potential and potency, so something potent has a strong, 'powerful' effect.