All-powerful

Definition: All-powerful

All-powerful

Adjective

1. Having unlimited power.

Date "all-powerful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Synonyms: All-powerful

Synonyms: almighty (adj), omnipotent (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: All-powerful

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deity	God, Lord, Jehovah, Jahweh, Allah; The Almighty, The Supreme Being, The First Cause, the Prime Mover; Ens Entium; Author of all things, Creator of all things; Author of our being; Cosmoplast; El; The Infinite, The Eternal; The All-powerful, The All-wise, The All-merciful, The All-holy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: All-powerful

English words defined with "all-powerful": Almightiful ♦ Cunctipotent ♦ hobble ♦ Omni-. (references)

Etymologies containing "all-powerful": Pancratium. (references)

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Modern Usage: All-powerful

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

That a mysterious, all-powerful God created the Universe, and then decided not to leave a single evidence of his existence? (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

You're not all-powerful, Ani. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

I am a mighty Deva sent here by the all-powerful Sovereign. (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

In less than 6 years, his small, insignificant tribe has risen from obscurity and given its name to an all-powerful nation organized into a fearsome military machine. (Shaka Zulu; writing credit: Joshua Sinclair)

A beautiful girl is all-powerful and that's as good as love. (Beautiful Girls; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: All-powerful

Domain	Title
Books	Saladin: All-Powerful Sultan and the Uniter of Islam (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: All-powerful

Author	Quotation
Pierre Corneille	Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: All-powerful

Author	Date	Quotation
Winston S. Churchill	1946	In those days there were high hopes and unbounded confidence that the wars were over, and that the League of Nations would become all-powerful. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: All-powerful

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Laos	Government policies are determined by the party through the all-powerful nine-member Politburo and the 49-member Central Committee. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: All-powerful

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Don't think that the Democrats are all-powerful and full of wizardry and that they are going to pull a rabbit out of their hat at the last minute.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: All-powerful

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	The appeal was accordingly made, in a just cause, to the Just and All-powerful Being who holds in His hand the chain of events and the destiny of nations.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: All-powerful

"All-powerful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "All-powerful" is used about 108 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	108	31,306

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: All-powerful

Language		Translations for "all-powerful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		almachtig (almighty, omnipotent). (various references)

Esperanto		ĉiopova (almighty, omnipotent). (various references)

Finnish		kaikkivaltias (almighty, omnipotent). (various references)

Frisian		almachtich (almighty, omnipotent). (various references)

Hungarian		teljhatalmú (omnipotent, plenipotentiary), mindenható (all powerful, almighty, most high, most highest, omnipotent, the almighty), korlátlan hatalmú (omnipotent). (various references)

Italian		onnipotente (all powerful, almighty, omnipotent). (various references)

Korean		모�" 강� �한. (various references)

Manx		ooilley-niartal (almighty, omnipotent), ooilley-chummaghtagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		all-powerfulay

Russian		всемогущий (all powerful, almighty, omnipotence, omnipotent, rectoral). (various references)

Spanish		todopoderoso (almighty, omnipotent), omnipotente (all powerful, almighty, omnipotent). (various references)

Swedish		allsmäktig (all powerful, almighty, omnipotent), allrådande (almighty, omnipotent). (various references)

Vietnamese		nắm hết quyền lực; có mọi quyền lực. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: All-powerful

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	omnipotens, omnipotente, omnipotentem, omnipotenti, omnipotentis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: All-powerful

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-l-l-o-p-r-u-w"
	-3 letters: awfuller, powerful, walloper.
	-4 letters: flareup, forepaw, peafowl, pleural.
	-5 letters: allure, earful, faller, fallow, fellow, ferula, florae, floral, flower, fouler, fowler, fuller, lapful, laurel, lawful, loafer, loller, loreal, pallor, parole, pleura, plower, plural, poller, prelaw, puller, purfle, refall, reflow, repoll, upflow, upwell, waeful, wallop, woeful, wolfer.
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