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Definition of mighty in English: mightyadjectivemightiest, mightier ˈmʌɪtiˈmaɪdi 1Possessing great and impressive power or strength, especially because of size. three mighty industrial countries Example sentencesExamples - The board has mighty powers to reject or approve the proposed hike.
- Beneath this apex extended a mighty machine of centralized power.
- Over the course of their two-year journey, the travelers learned to respect the mighty beast.
- This nation, once a mighty world power, is being systematically stripped of all its wealth and influence, and no-one bats an eyelid.
- How does he characterise these mighty beasts of the orchestral jungle?
- A glance at the current spate of hotel marketing deals makes it clear that tykes are wielding some mighty power.
- The power of thoughts is a mighty power that is always shaping our lives.
- This mighty power will continue to press for county councillors to respect the professional judgement of their highway engineers and consultants.
- And believe me, they will be cleaned up with air power and the mighty forces that are on the ground.
- It was quite an effort just to pull the oar level and even without my mighty power the boat was still whizzing along.
- And both were a wake-up call to a mighty power to stir itself to action.
- His view of a mighty power fighting a lost cause for all the wrong reasons would be validated by the succeeding decade.
- The weapons of peace loving anti-imperialists may seem to be inconsequential compared to the power of the mighty few.
- The waterfall came down upon his body, forcing him to crumble under its mighty power.
- I must say I didn't feel like a sorceress that was going to wield mighty power.
- Are we witnessing the start of the demise of a once all-powerful, mighty beast?
- So I'm going to harness the mighty power of Google and put the beacon out there.
- Needless to say, I bought the sword, and quickly learned to harness its great and mighty power.
- They crumbled to our mighty power with our losses barely reaching through the double digits.
- The mighty power of influence still lived, whether good or bad.
Synonyms fearsome, ferocious big, tough, robust, manful, potent, sturdy, muscular, strapping, Herculean vigorous, energetic, stout dominant, influential, strong, powerful, important, leading, authoritative, controlling, predominant, prestigious - 1.1 (of an action) performed with or requiring great strength.
Example sentencesExamples - He gave the foot wedged in the portal a mighty blow with his own, and pushed the door closed.
- Shouting a victory cry, he gave one mighty heave and shoe, worm, and fish flew from the water in a perfect arc over his boat.
- Finally, with a mighty heave, he wrenched the cross from the ground and quickly got his hands free.
- Strength isn't something they are short of judging by the mighty heaves they gave every drive.
- He flung open the doors with a mighty heave, dashed inside, and screamed something about justice all the way.
- The muscles in his legs were tense, as was the moment, and then he unleashed all his power in a mighty jump.
- The pirate back-handed him with his cutlass, serving up a mighty blow to the older man's jaw.
- Stronger than rock, it yields a mighty blow to the foe with each assault.
- It looked like a mighty blow against the forces of evil, which is all that he and his entourage thought necessary.
- It struck a mighty blow against slavery where it was strongest, in the plantation zone.
- He took up the gavel, but in his nervous state about performing such a gutsy move, he gave the person sitting next to him a mighty blow on the head.
- He stepped forward and with one mighty blow of his fist he felled the tree.
- She would triumph over them and with one mighty blow, strike them all down.
- I gave the stick a mighty heave and it swung out in a beautiful, soaring arc.
- He has given our people stout hearts and strong arms with which to strike mighty blows for freedom and truth.
- So gathering all the strength he had he gave a mighty heave and broke the chain about his neck.
- With a mighty heave, he threw the man from behind the rocks and onto the ground in front of him.
- But as she did so, the ship gave a mighty heave and tossed both young adults backward onto the floor.
Synonyms powerful, forceful, violent, ferocious, fierce, brutal, vicious, vigorous, hefty, thunderous, savage, destructive, damaging, painful lethal, deadly - 1.2informal Very large.
Example sentencesExamples - Near the docks I was approached by a hairy creature staggering under a mighty rucksack.
Synonyms huge, enormous, massive, gigantic, big, large, great, giant, colossal, mammoth, vast, immense, tremendous, stupendous, monumental, prodigious, mountainous, monstrous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, Brobdingnagian, substantial informal mega, monster, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo(-sized), hulking, bumper, astronomical, astronomic British informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous
adverb ˈmʌɪtiˈmaɪdi North American informal as submodifier Extremely. my ears got cold mighty fast Example sentencesExamples - So when you reach 6,000 rpm the first time and think that this is a mighty fast car, the CCX is just limbering up.
- You guys have left some mighty good ideas here and via email.
- Cold, wind and precipitation can make you mighty uncomfortable, not to mention put you at risk for hypothermia.
- Jonathan is acting mighty smug, but this should put him back in his proper place.
- I would imagine that anybody who is captured by the enemy ought to be mighty careful going forward.
- If that's the new definition I have a feeling that the list of enemies of civilization is going to get mighty unwieldy.
- But believe you me, that silly seventy dollars will fit in mighty nice this time of year in my cash-flow.
- It's mighty curious behavior to dump shares as the stock price is climbing and their marketablity should increase.
- He's acting mighty cagey for a guy who just reads the papers, don't you think?
- Preventing yourself from being buried by an avalanche of history homework can seem mighty impossible.
- The squeaky wheels get the grease, and certain widows belonging to certain organizations are mighty squeaky.
- I think they were all mighty proud of this one, and for good reason.
- He provided a mighty weak basis on which to call us smear artists.
- Essentially, they invented a form of rebuke that has no constitutional meaning, but sounds mighty fancy.
- If you consider 40 years ago to be ancient history, I'm starting to feel mighty old.
- You always know if a party's stock has been going up or down, but it's mighty difficult to know if it will keep going up or down.
- Those tissues will come in mighty handy and I'll be forever grateful that he left them for me.
- The car search rolls on, and I tell you, I'm feeling mighty petulant about it.
- As their economies mature, the return on investment will decline, and the miracle will start to look mighty soggy.
- Lawyers get paid mighty big bucks to spend their time on these questions.
Synonyms extremely, exceedingly, enormously, vastly, immensely, tremendously, hugely, markedly, remarkably, abundantly, deadly, awfully, dreadfully, mightily, very, very much, most, so, to a great extent informal majorly, mega, oh-so, way, stinking, bitching British informal well, jolly North American informal plumb South African informal lekker informal, dated frightfully, devilish
Derivatives noun ˈmʌɪtɪnəsˈmaɪdinəs No, mightiness comes later after many battles with enemy units, big spiders, polar bears, wolves, giants, and gangs of thugs. Example sentencesExamples - The Romans wanted the architecture to show off the magnificence and mightiness of their emperor.
Origin Old English mihtig (see might2, -y1). Rhymes almighty, Aphrodite, Blighty, flighty, nightie Definition of mighty in US English: mightyadjectiveˈmaɪdiˈmīdē 1Possessing great and impressive power or strength, especially on account of size. three mighty industrial countries Example sentencesExamples - Are we witnessing the start of the demise of a once all-powerful, mighty beast?
- How does he characterise these mighty beasts of the orchestral jungle?
- The board has mighty powers to reject or approve the proposed hike.
- The waterfall came down upon his body, forcing him to crumble under its mighty power.
- And both were a wake-up call to a mighty power to stir itself to action.
- So I'm going to harness the mighty power of Google and put the beacon out there.
- Beneath this apex extended a mighty machine of centralized power.
- Needless to say, I bought the sword, and quickly learned to harness its great and mighty power.
- A glance at the current spate of hotel marketing deals makes it clear that tykes are wielding some mighty power.
- This nation, once a mighty world power, is being systematically stripped of all its wealth and influence, and no-one bats an eyelid.
- They crumbled to our mighty power with our losses barely reaching through the double digits.
- And believe me, they will be cleaned up with air power and the mighty forces that are on the ground.
- This mighty power will continue to press for county councillors to respect the professional judgement of their highway engineers and consultants.
- It was quite an effort just to pull the oar level and even without my mighty power the boat was still whizzing along.
- The power of thoughts is a mighty power that is always shaping our lives.
- The weapons of peace loving anti-imperialists may seem to be inconsequential compared to the power of the mighty few.
- The mighty power of influence still lived, whether good or bad.
- Over the course of their two-year journey, the travelers learned to respect the mighty beast.
- His view of a mighty power fighting a lost cause for all the wrong reasons would be validated by the succeeding decade.
- I must say I didn't feel like a sorceress that was going to wield mighty power.
Synonyms fearsome, ferocious dominant, influential, strong, powerful, important, leading, authoritative, controlling, predominant, prestigious - 1.1 (of an action) performed with or requiring great strength.
figurative a mighty blow against racism Example sentencesExamples - The pirate back-handed him with his cutlass, serving up a mighty blow to the older man's jaw.
- It struck a mighty blow against slavery where it was strongest, in the plantation zone.
- So gathering all the strength he had he gave a mighty heave and broke the chain about his neck.
- But as she did so, the ship gave a mighty heave and tossed both young adults backward onto the floor.
- Finally, with a mighty heave, he wrenched the cross from the ground and quickly got his hands free.
- The muscles in his legs were tense, as was the moment, and then he unleashed all his power in a mighty jump.
- He stepped forward and with one mighty blow of his fist he felled the tree.
- He has given our people stout hearts and strong arms with which to strike mighty blows for freedom and truth.
- He gave the foot wedged in the portal a mighty blow with his own, and pushed the door closed.
- Stronger than rock, it yields a mighty blow to the foe with each assault.
- I gave the stick a mighty heave and it swung out in a beautiful, soaring arc.
- Shouting a victory cry, he gave one mighty heave and shoe, worm, and fish flew from the water in a perfect arc over his boat.
- It looked like a mighty blow against the forces of evil, which is all that he and his entourage thought necessary.
- Strength isn't something they are short of judging by the mighty heaves they gave every drive.
- He flung open the doors with a mighty heave, dashed inside, and screamed something about justice all the way.
- With a mighty heave, he threw the man from behind the rocks and onto the ground in front of him.
- She would triumph over them and with one mighty blow, strike them all down.
- He took up the gavel, but in his nervous state about performing such a gutsy move, he gave the person sitting next to him a mighty blow on the head.
Synonyms powerful, forceful, violent, ferocious, fierce, brutal, vicious, vigorous, hefty, thunderous, savage, destructive, damaging, painful - 1.2informal Very large.
Example sentencesExamples - Near the docks I was approached by a hairy creature staggering under a mighty rucksack.
Synonyms huge, enormous, massive, gigantic, big, large, great, giant, colossal, mammoth, vast, immense, tremendous, stupendous, monumental, prodigious, mountainous, monstrous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, brobdingnagian, substantial
adverbˈmaɪdiˈmīdē North American informal as submodifier Extremely. this is mighty early to be planning a presidential campaign Example sentencesExamples - If that's the new definition I have a feeling that the list of enemies of civilization is going to get mighty unwieldy.
- He provided a mighty weak basis on which to call us smear artists.
- The squeaky wheels get the grease, and certain widows belonging to certain organizations are mighty squeaky.
- Those tissues will come in mighty handy and I'll be forever grateful that he left them for me.
- He's acting mighty cagey for a guy who just reads the papers, don't you think?
- But believe you me, that silly seventy dollars will fit in mighty nice this time of year in my cash-flow.
- Preventing yourself from being buried by an avalanche of history homework can seem mighty impossible.
- You always know if a party's stock has been going up or down, but it's mighty difficult to know if it will keep going up or down.
- Lawyers get paid mighty big bucks to spend their time on these questions.
- The car search rolls on, and I tell you, I'm feeling mighty petulant about it.
- I would imagine that anybody who is captured by the enemy ought to be mighty careful going forward.
- It's mighty curious behavior to dump shares as the stock price is climbing and their marketablity should increase.
- If you consider 40 years ago to be ancient history, I'm starting to feel mighty old.
- Essentially, they invented a form of rebuke that has no constitutional meaning, but sounds mighty fancy.
- You guys have left some mighty good ideas here and via email.
- So when you reach 6,000 rpm the first time and think that this is a mighty fast car, the CCX is just limbering up.
- Cold, wind and precipitation can make you mighty uncomfortable, not to mention put you at risk for hypothermia.
- I think they were all mighty proud of this one, and for good reason.
- Jonathan is acting mighty smug, but this should put him back in his proper place.
- As their economies mature, the return on investment will decline, and the miracle will start to look mighty soggy.
Synonyms extremely, exceedingly, enormously, vastly, immensely, tremendously, hugely, markedly, remarkably, abundantly, deadly, awfully, dreadfully, mightily, very, very much, most, so, to a great extent
Origin Old English mihtig (see might, -y). |