What does Potent mean?

Definitions for Potent
ˈpoʊt ntpo·tent

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Potent.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. potent, powerfuladjective

    having great influence

  2. potent, strongadjective

    having or wielding force or authority

    "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"

  3. potent, strong, stiffadjective

    having a strong physiological or chemical effect

    "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"

  4. potent, virileadjective

    (of a male) capable of copulation

Wiktionary

  1. potentadjective

    Possessing strength

  2. potentadjective

    Being effective in small quantities.

  3. potentadjective

    Having a sharp or offensive taste.

  4. potentadjective

    able to procreate.

  5. potentadjective

    very powerful or effective.

  6. Etymology: From potens, present participle of posse, from potis.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. POTENTadjective

    Etymology: potens, Latin.

    There is nothing more contagious than some kinds of harmony; than some nothing more strong and potent unto good. Richard Hooker.

    Why stand these royal fronts amazed thus?
    Cry havock, kings; back to the stained field,
    You equal potents, fiery kindled spirits! William Shakespeare.

    I do believe,
    Induc’d by potent circumstances, that
    You are mine enemy. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

    Here’s another
    More potent than the first. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    One would wonder how, from so differing premisses, they should infer the same conclusion, were it not that the conspiration of interest were too potent for the diversity of judgment. Decay of Piety.

    When by command
    Moses once more his potent rod extends
    Over the sea; the sea his rod obeys. John Milton.

    Verses are the potent charms we use,
    Heroick thoughts and virtue to infuse. Edmund Waller.

    The magistrate cannot urge obedience upon such potent grounds, as the minister can urge disobedience. South.

    How the effluvia of a magnet can be so rare and subtile, as to pass through a plate of glass without any resistance or diminution of their force, and yet so potent as to turn a magnetick needle through the glass. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

    The chemical preparations are more vigorous and potent in their effects than the galenical. Thomas Baker.

    Cyclop, since human flesh has been thy feast,
    Now drain this goblet potent to digest. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. potent

    Potent refers to having great power, influence, or effect; it also can mean having a strong medicinal or chemical effect. It is typically used to signify strength or effectiveness in various contexts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Potentadjective

    producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine

  2. Potentadjective

    having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince

  3. Potentadjective

    powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument

  4. Potentnoun

    a prince; a potentate

  5. Potentnoun

    a staff or crutch

  6. Potentnoun

    one of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned

  7. Etymology: [See Potence.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Potent

    pō′tent, adj. strong: powerful in a physical or a moral sense: having great authority or influence.—n. a prince, potentate.—ns. Pō′tence, power: (her.): in horology, the stud or counterbridge forming a step for the lower pivot of a verge (also Pō′tance); Pō′tency, power: authority: influence; Pō′tentate, one who possesses power: a prince.—adj. Pōten′tial, powerful, efficacious: existing in possibility, not in reality: (gram.) expressing power, possibility, liberty, or obligation.—n. anything that may be possible: a possibility: the name for a function in the mathematical theory of attractions: the power of a charge or current of electricity to do work.—n. Pōtential′ity.—adv. Pōten′tially.—n. Pōten′tiary, a person invested with power or influence.—v.t. Pōten′tiate, to give power to.—n. Pō′tentite, a blasting substance.—adv. Pō′tently.—n. Pō′tentness.—Potential energy, the power of doing work possessed by a body in virtue of the stresses which result from its position relatively to other bodies. [L. potenspotis, able, esse, to be.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Potent in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Potent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Potent in a Sentence

  1. Eliza Mother Stewart:

    No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king

  2. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton:

    The federal government's stated inability to run effective background checks on these refugees, entering the United States from one of the world's most potent hotbeds of terrorism, puts all Texans at risk.

  3. Andreas Essig:

    Horse dung is a very rich substrate that harbours a diversity of micro-organisms, including fungi and bacteria, now these micro-organisms are in a constant competition for nutrients and space and it's therefore very likely to find potent antibiotics in such an environment, which are used by the different organisms to inhibit the growth of the competitors.

  4. Peter Csathy:

    Disney has already announced it will withhold some of its most prized possessions from Netflix. That’s a powerful thing, so if it canbring in X-men and Avatar — and also keep those away from Netflix — thats a potent punch.

  5. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

    Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

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