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powreful

powreful is the obsolete form of powerful.

Meaning of powerful

Adjective

powerful (comparative more powerful, superlative most powerful)

  1. Having, or capable of exerting, power or influence.
    • The powerful grace that lies / In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. Leading to many or important deductions.
    • a powerful set of postulates
    Synonyms:
    heavy
  3. Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.
  4. (not comparable) Being a powerful number.
    Synonyms:
    squareful

See all 5 meanings of powerful

Forms of powreful

comparativemore powreful
superlativemost powreful

Origin of powreful

From powre + -ful.

Questions about powreful

What is powreful the obsolete form of?
Powreful is the obsolete form of powerful.

Words near powreful in the dictionary

  1. pownds
  2. POWO
  3. Powranna
  4. powre
  5. powred
  6. powreful
  7. powrefull
  8. powrefully
  9. powres
  10. Powrie
  11. powring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: powreful (page history and authors); powerful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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