Thesaurus / puissant
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synonyms for puissant
- able
- able-bodied
- active
- athletic
- big
- capable
- durable
- enduring
- energetic
- firm
- fixed
- forceful
- forcible
- hale
- hard as nails
- hardy
- hearty
- heavy
- heavy-duty
- in fine feather
- mighty
- muscular
- potent
- powerful
- reinforced
- robust
- rugged
- secure
- sinewy
- solid
- sound
- stable
- stalwart
- stark
- staunch
- steady
- stout
- strapping
- sturdy
- substantial
- tenacious
- tough
- unyielding
- vigorous
- well-built
- well-founded
- well-made
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How to use puissant in a sentence
For he deemed a lady so much sought after must needs be a puissant dame.
THE MERRIE TALES OF JACQUES TOURNEBROCHEANATOLE FRANCEThen they were seated behind him, and the puissant horses shot off down the Corso and towards the Bastioni at a magnificent pace.
THE DEVOURERSANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRESHigh, puissant and redoubtable seigneur of Nointel, Jacques Bonhomme pardons you for the outrage he perpetrated upon you!
THE IRON TREVET OR JOCELYN THE CHAMPIONEUGNE SUENo more wars: puissant Ladies, shew conditions And freely I accept 'em.
BEAUMONT & FLETCHER'S WORKS (8 OF 10)FRANCIS BEAUMONTHalf an hour later, Haward rose from his chair and bowed low as to some highborn and puissant dame.
AUDREYMARY JOHNSTONPuissant, pū′is-ant, adj. potent or powerful: strong: forcible.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 3 OF 4: N-R)VARIOUSIt is good or bad, pallid or puissant, and not by all the might of the sea can it be changed.
THE TREASURE OF THE HUMBLEMAURICE MAETERLINCKOne dwelt near Exeter, full puissant, but an old man and an ancient.
TALES FROM THE OLD FRENCHVARIOUSTennyson, according to Matthew Arnold, was not un esprit puissant.
ALFRED TENNYSONANDREW LANGAnd finally there is Rome itself, sombre, puissant, and both in language and ideals conquering by mass.
THE OXFORD BOOK OF LATIN VERSEVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO PUISSANT
- apposite
- apt
- compelling
- conclusive
- consequential
- convictive
- convincing
- fitting
- forceful
- forcible
- inducing
- influential
- irresistible
- justified
- meaningful
- momentous
- persuasive
- pertinent
- potent
- powerful
- puissant
- relevant
- satisfactory
- satisfying
- significant
- solid
- sound
- strong
- suasive
- telling
- urgent
- valid
- weighty
- well-grounded
- ball of fire
- big-wheel
- bullish
- cogent
- coming on strong
- commanding
- compelling
- constraining
- convincing
- dominant
- dynamic
- electric
- elemental
- energetic
- forcible
- gutsy
- mighty
- persuasive
- pithy
- potent
- powerhouse
- puissant
- punch
- punchy
- steamroller
- stringent
- strong
- take-charge
- takeover
- telling
- titanic
- vehement
- vigorous
- violent
- virile
- weighty
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.