Meanings
all-powerful1
- not comparableHaving unlimited power; omnipotent.
Imagination is faithful when it is all-powerful.
1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 2354 more examples
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.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 241"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?"
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLCThe desirable Miss Moneypenny, M's all-powerful private secretary, gave him an encouraging smile and he walked through the double doors.
1954, Ian Fleming, “Interview with M”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 13But 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.
1997 March 9, Paul Krugman, “Does Getting Old Cost Society Too Much?”, in The New York Times, →ISSNSynonyms: almighty, omnipotent
All-Powerful2
- God
Jealous and full of anger, they leered as the soft song of the scop praised the All-Powerful.
1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 20
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving unlimited power; omnipotent.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivehaving unlimited power
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂elnós
- Proto-Germanic*allaz
- Proto-Germanic*ala-
- Proto-West Germanic*ala-
- Old Englishæl-
- Middle Englishall-
- Englishall-
- Englishpowerful
- Englishall-powerful
Translations
Ancient Greek παντοκράτωρ
- παντοκράτωρ (pantokrátōr)omnipotent
Bulgarian всевластен
- всевластен (vsevlasten)omnipotent
Catalan totpoderós
- totpoderósomnipotent
Danish almægtig
- almægtigomnipotent
Esperanto ĉiopova
- ĉiopovaomnipotent
Finnish kaikkivoipa, kaikkivaltias
- kaikkivoipaomnipotent
- kaikkivaltiasomnipotent
German allmächtig
- allmächtigomnipotent
Greek παντοδύναμος, πανίσχυρος
- παντοδύναμος (pantodýnamos)omnipotent
- πανίσχυρος (paníschyros)omnipotent
Irish uilechumhachtach
- uilechumhachtachomnipotent
Latin omnipōtens
- omnipōtensomnipotent
Norwegian Bokmål allmektig
- allmektigomnipotent
Polish wszechmocny, wszechmogący
- wszechmocnyomnipotent
- wszechmogącyomnipotent
Portuguese todo-poderoso
- todo-poderosoomnipotent
Russian всемогу́щий
- всемогу́щий (vsemogúščij)omnipotent
Scottish Gaelic uile-neartmhor
- uile-neartmhoromnipotent
Ukrainian всеси́льний
- всеси́льний (vsesýlʹnyj)omnipotent
Cite this entry
all-powerful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-powerful
“all-powerful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-powerful. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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