ALMIGHTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Almighty mean? 

• ALMIGHTY (noun)
  The noun ALMIGHTY has 1 sense:

1. terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

  Familiarity information: ALMIGHTY used as a noun is very rare.

• ALMIGHTY (adjective)
  The adjective ALMIGHTY has 1 sense:

1. having unlimited power

  Familiarity information: ALMIGHTY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALMIGHTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Almighty; Creator; Divine; God Almighty; Godhead; Jehovah; Lord; Maker

Instance hypernyms:

God; Supreme Being (the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Almighty"):

Blessed Trinity; Holy Trinity; Sacred Trinity; Trinity (the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead)

hypostasis; hypostasis of Christ (any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united)

Derivation:

almighty (having unlimited power)

• ALMIGHTY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having unlimited power

Synonyms:

all-powerful; almighty; omnipotent

Similar:

powerful (having great power or force or potency or effect)

Derivation:

Almighty (terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God)

 Context examples 

Henry looked at him commiseratingly, and said, "I'll be almighty glad when this trip's over."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“I remember the ‘Forge.’ Filled with pretty sentiments and an almighty faith in human illusions. By the way, Mr. Van Weyden, you’d better look in on Cooky. He’s complaining and restless.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To us they were a class apart, to be hinted at rather than named, with the wrath of the Almighty hanging over them like a thundercloud.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was like a soul crying out to Almighty God.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I am almighty proud of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence—and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

On the other hand, if all should go well (which may kind God Almighty grant!), then if by any chance this paper should be still undestroyed and should fall into your hands, I conjure you, by all you hold sacred, by the memory of your dear mother, and by the love which had been between us, to hurl it into the fire and to never give one thought to it again.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Henry thought long over it before he went to sleep, and as his eyelids fluttered down and he dozed off, the thought in his mind was: There's no mistakin' it, Bill's almighty blue.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

My dear, please Almighty God, your life may be all it promises: a long day of sunshine, with no harsh wind, no forgetting duty, no distrust.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Pulling her beautiful hair over her face, as the leper of old his mantle, she wailed out:—"Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the Judgment Day."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)