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omnipotent

om·ni·po·tent

UK/ɒmˈnɪp.ə.tənt/US/ɑmˈnɪp.ə.tənt/

adjective

What it means

  1. Having unlimited power, force or authority.

    , omnivalent

    3 more examples

    Near-synonyms: plenipotent, plenipotentiary, omnicompetent

    And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mightie thundrings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 19:6

    All the spirits of the elements bowed down before him; but the future was still hidden from his eyes, and Death was omnipotent.

    1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, pages 16–17

    Synonyms: almighty, all-powerful, plenipotent, plenipotentiary, omnicompetent

  2. biologyDescribing a cell (especially a stem cell) that is capable of developing into any type of cell or forming any type of tissue (also called a totipotent cell).
  3. archaicArrant.

In a sentence

, omnivalent

Where it comes from

  1. Latinomnipotēns, omnipotentem
  2. Old Frenchomnipotent
  3. Middle Englishomnipotent(e)
  4. Englishomnipotent

Inherited from Middle English omnipotent(e), from Old French omnipotent, from Latin omnipotēns, omnipotentem.

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