Synonym: forceful, mighty, powerful, strong. Antonym: impotent. Similar words: potential, potentially, tent, latent, extent, patent, intent, content. Meaning: ['pəʊtənt] adj. 1. having great influence 2. having or wielding force or authority 3. having a strong physiological or chemical effect 4. (of a male) capable of copulation.
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91, I felt better out here and I realized it was the absence of organ music that made the graveside ceremony less potent.
92, The idea, which smacks of Milton, was potent in the age.
93, The second disadvantage of punishment is that rather like potent drugs, it leads to unwanted side-effects.
94, Into this potent politicization of what remained, at heart, a medical mystery, scientists ventured at their peril.
95, Our findings may also have clinical implications concerning longterm treatment of acid related disorders with potent inhibitors of acid secretion.
96, Alesi will be a potent force, particularly if the Michelin tyres work well in the rain.
97, Never before have we been so potent, not even in New York when we were combing nurses out of our hair.
98, Then she realised that her other hand held a much more potent weapon.
99, The most intensely radioactive is high-level waste - typically a thousand times more potent than the intermediate level.
100, Is he so bloody potent that he can thump you and make love to you and you let him do it?
101, Fanged skulls with potent crosses adorned the knee joints of these warriors' armour.
102, Unfortunately it was a potent combination[sentencedict.com], and there was no known cure.
103, Volberding urged drug companies to create products that were more convenient for patients, not just more potent.
104, Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, each molecule trapping 25 times as much heat radiation as one molecule of carbon dioxide.
105, More potent still was the dismay which gripped Washington whenever it contemplated the implications of a permanently weakened or uncooperative Britain.
106, We had been delivered into the midst of a birth far more significant, profoundly more potent than our own.
107, Some have drawn up guidelines to snuff out only the most potent forms.
108, So potent is the tradition of Czech cafe society, that most cafes were shut down after the Communist takeover in 1948.
109, Square-cut and staid to behold, it packs a potent punch quite at odds with its looks.
110, It was a golden moment for scientists building a potent new atomic accelerator at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
111, If this drug fails to control the diabetes than a more potent preparation such as glibenclamide may be required.
112, But a good company pension scheme remains a potent weapon when it comes to attracting and keeping staff.
113, The longer the carbon chain, the more potent the alcohol as an intoxicant.
114, It held him in an interval of assessment more potent than the silence that accompanied it.
115, Incidentally this clarifies why the man-machine system is such a potent combination.
116, And we note this with sadness, because in functioning organizations these toxins need never become potent enough to taint performance.
117, This offer of a spiritual identity was considerably enriched through its association with a potent instrument for popular cultural intervention.
118, The oesophageal distention caused by gastro-oesophageal reflux is a potent stimulus of transient upper oesophageal sphincter relaxations in children.
119, This usually put Dad to rights but must have been pretty potent stuff as it ceased to be available after the war.
120, These three potent forces - people, technology and competition - mean that industry can not afford to become institutionalized.
More similar words: potential, potentially, tent, latent, extent, patent, intent, content, listen to, penitent, sentence, attention, intention, consistent, contentious, inadvertent, intermittent, consistently, to some extent, inadvertently, pay attention to, more often than not, a bone of contention, environmental protection, spot, potato, entertainment, sentiment, spotted, on the spot.