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OMNIPOTENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does omnipotent mean?
• OMNIPOTENT (adjective)
The adjective OMNIPOTENT has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: OMNIPOTENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having unlimited power
Synonyms:
all-powerful; almighty; omnipotent
Similar:
powerful (having great power or force or potency or effect)
Derivation:
omnipotence (the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power)
Context examples
It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
You think you are omnipotent, you infernal scribblers, don't you?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In writing, again, the author must be omnipotent.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But to me the remembrance of the threat returned; nor can you wonder that, omnipotent as the fiend had yet been in his deeds of blood, I should almost regard him as invincible, and that when he had pronounced the words I shall be with you on your wedding-night, I should regard the threatened fate as unavoidable.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Chance—or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father’s door—led me first to M. Krempe, professor of natural philosophy.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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