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Definition of Potent
1. Adjective. Having great influence.
2. Adjective. Having or wielding force or authority. "Providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"
3. Adjective. Having a strong physiological or chemical effect. "A stiff drink"
Attributes: Effectiveness, Potency, Strength
Also: Effective, Effectual, Efficacious, Fertile, Powerful
Similar to: Equipotent, Multipotent
Antonyms: Impotent
Derivative terms: Potency
4. Adjective. (of a male) capable of copulation.
Definition of Potent
1. a. Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
2. n. A prince; a potentate.
Definition of Potent
1. Adjective. Possessing strength ¹
2. Adjective. Being effective in small quantities. ¹
3. Adjective. Having a sharp or offensive taste. ¹
4. Adjective. (context: of a male) able to procreate. ¹
5. Adjective. very powerful or effective. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Potent
1. powerful [adj] : POTENTLY [adv] - See also: powerful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potent
Literary usage of Potent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"After which follows the Shepherds Spring-song, for Entertainment of King James,
our most potent Sovereign. Dedicated to all that loved the deceased Queen, ..."
2. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"A slave he was to this potent drug not less abject than Caliban to Pros pero—his
detested and yet despotic master. Like Caliban, he frets his very ..."
3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"The open onion, soch m alone can develop among the less skilled, a potent instrument
for good. 301 — Sec.3. Closed shop or open shop? ..."
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