plenipotent

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/pliːˈnɪpətənt/

adjective

Having full power.

“Near-synonyms: omnicompetent; omnipotent, almighty, all-powerful”

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OriginLatin plenus →
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Meanings

adjectiveplenipotent (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving full power.

    Near-synonyms: omnicompetent; omnipotent, almighty, all-powerful

    1 more example

    My Substitutes I send ye, and Create Plenipotent on Earth, of matchless might Issuing from mee: on your joynt vigor now My hold of this new Kingdom all depends, Through Sin to Death expos’d by my exploit.

    1667, John Milton, “Book CCLXX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 404

    Synonyms: plenipotentiary, plenipotential, omnicompetent, omnipotent, almighty, all-powerful

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHaving full power.

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plenipotentiaryplenipotentialomnicompetentomnipotentalmightyall-powerful
Also see
omnicompetentomnipotentplenipotentialplenipotentiary

Origin

  1. Latinplenus“full”
  2. Englishplenipotent

From Latin plenus (“full”) + potens, potentis (“potent”).

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plenipotent,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plenipotent.

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