Potent Definition

pōtnt
adjective
Possessing inner or physical strength; powerful.
American Heritage
Exerting or capable of exerting strong physiological or chemical effects.
American Heritage Medicine
Convincing; cogent.
A potent argument.
Webster's New World
Having authority or power; mighty; influential.
A potent monarch.
Webster's New World
Effective or powerful in action, as a drug or drink.
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(heraldry) A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes.

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Other Word Forms of Potent

Noun

Singular:
potent
Plural:
potents

Origin of Potent

  • From Latin potens (“powerful, strong, potent"), present participle of posse (“to be able"), from potis (“able, powerful, originally a lord, master").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin potēns potent- present participle of posse to be able poti- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Potent Sentence Examples

  • The belief exercises a potent moral influence.

  • Too aware of him, she tensed as he crouched beside her, the scent too potent to be a dream.

  • The extent and glamour of his empire exercised a potent spell on western Europe.

  • If he could get potent drugs to cure disease he was content, and he worked very hard in an empirical way to make them.

  • It is a singular circumstance that reciprocal crosses are not always or even often possible; thus, one rhododendron may afford pollen perfectly potent on the stigma of another kind, by the pollen of which latter its own stigma is unaffected.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOT

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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potent

Words Starting With P and Ending With T

Starts With P & Ends With TStarts With PO & Ends With TStarts With P & Ends With NT

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With T