Powerless vs. Powerful — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Powerless and Powerful
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Powerless
Lacking strength or power; helpless and totally ineffectual.
Powerful
Having or capable of exerting power.
Powerless
Lacking legal or other authority.
Powerful
Effective or potent
A powerful drug.
Powerless
Lacking sufficient power or strength.
I admit that I am powerless over my hatred towards white people in ways that I am unable to recognize fully, both at this time and in the past.
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Powerful
Chiefly Upper Southern US Great
"[Everybody had] a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free grace ... and I don't know what all" (Mark Twain).
Powerless
Lacking legal authority.
The traffic warden was powerless to stop me driving away.
Powerful
Very
It was powerful humid.
Powerless
Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.
Powerful
Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.
Powerless
Lacking power
Powerful
Leading to many or important deductions.
A powerful set of postulates
A powerful theorem
Powerful
(mining) Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.
Powerful
(Southern US) very
Powerful
Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.
The powerful grace that liesIn herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.
Powerful
Large; capacious; - said of veins of ore.
Powerful
Having great power or force or potency or effect;
The most powerful government in western Europe
His powerful arms
A powerful bomb
The horse's powerful kick
Powerful drugs
A powerful argument
Powerful
Strong enough to knock down or overwhelm;
A knock-down blow
Powerful
Having the power to influence or convince;
A cogent analysis of the problem
Potent arguments
Powerful
(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful;
A hefty athlete
A muscular boxer
Powerful arms
Powerful
Displaying superhuman strength or power;
Herculean exertions
Powerful
(Southern regional intensive) very;
The baby is mighty cute
He's mighty tired
It is powerful humid
That boy is powerful big now
They have a right nice place
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