Synonyms for powerfully


Grammar : Adv
Spell : pou-er-fuhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpaʊ ər fəl

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Définition of powerfully

Origin :
  • c.1400, from power (n.) + -ful. Meaning "of great quality or number" is from 1811; colloquial sense of "exceedingly" (adv.) is from 1822. Related: Powerfully. Thornton ("American Glossary") notes powerful as "Much used by common people in the sense of very," along with monstrous and cites curious expressions such as devilish good, monstrous pretty (1799), dreadful polite, cruel pretty, abominable fine (1803), "or when a young lady admires a lap dog for being so vastly small and declares him prodigious handsome" (1799).
  • adv with energy, authority
Example sentences :
  • These troubles in the Church so powerfully affected them that they withdrew.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • But Pierre was unable to pray, so powerfully did revolt stir him.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • He talked of Monferrand's followers who had so powerfully helped him on to victory.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • Both lived amongst the people, and powerfully influenced them for good.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • All this which, in the case of another I should have laughed at, most powerfully affected me in my own.
  • Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
  • I hear that you are also powerfully borne onwards in prayer and song.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • It was as a powerfully equipped nature that I found him interesting.
  • Extract from : « Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ » by Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes
  • For me there were none of those aids which so powerfully assist the return to health.
  • Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
  • The others are first-rate—though a heap of them are powerfully young.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • He was powerfully drawn to the Medieval Church, but not to the Primitive.
  • Extract from : « Apologia Pro Vita Sua » by John Henry Cardinal Newman

Antonyms for powerfully

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