all-powerful
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.84 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
name
Example Sentences
- "Imagination is faithful when it is all-powerful."
- "The friendless Italian was a much safer person than the niece of the all-powerful minister, whose ambition would not stop but at the throne. Francesca might be allowed to detach him from Mademoiselle Mancini, and could then be easily flung aside."
- ""Why, dost thou believe that I, who am all-powerful, I, whose loveliness is more than the loveliness of the Grecian Helen, of whom they used to sing, and whose wisdom is wider, ay, far more wide and deep than the wisdom of Solomon the Wise [...] why, I say, oh stranger, dost thou think that I herd here with barbarians lower than the beasts?""
- "The desirable Miss Moneypenny, M's all-powerful private secretary, gave him an encouraging smile and he walked through the double doors."
- "But in his 1996 novel, Holy Fire, [Bruce] Sterling imagines a rather different future: a world ruled by an all-powerful gerontocracy, which appropriates most of the world's wealth to pay for ever more costly life-extension techniques."
- "Jealous and full of anger, they leered as the soft song of the scop praised the All-Powerful."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-Germanic *ala- Proto-West Germanic *ala- Old English æl- Middle English all- English all- English powerful English all-powerful From all- + powerful.
Inflected Forms
the All-Powerful (canonical)