powerfully
/ˈpaʊəf(ə)li
/adverb
1With great power or strength: a tall, powerfully built man his left-foot volley was powerfully struck...
- The highly toxic and addictive absinthe acted powerfully on the nerve centres, intoxicated rapidly, and could cause delirium and hallucinations.
- Light percolates through an external carapace of rusted woven wire panels that are kinked and cranked like powerfully rippling muscles.
- The theory posits that milk, by the intrinsic nature of its protein components, is powerfully nutritious in its basic composition.
1.1With control and influence over people and events: the mentor who had powerfully shaped his career motivation and mental performance are powerfully influenced by diet...
- Poetry is language that makes abundant use of figures of speech and language that aims to be powerfully persuasive.
- They remodelled the paradigm so powerfully fashioned by their father.
- Gemini forms with each of the pairs of opposites in the zodiac a third factor, powerfully influencing the other two constellations.
1.2With a strong effect on people’s feelings or thoughts: he spoke powerfully about the horrors of war [as submodifier]: a powerfully moving human drama...
- The democratic space of the ballpark is combined with the sacred litany of the players' names in a powerfully nostalgic moment.
- The account of this 'fire and smoke' remains powerfully in a reader's mind long after the whims and eccentricities of minor characters have receded in the memory.
- The narrative voice of these sections expresses the same self-loathing and despair so powerfully felt in the earlier lyrics.