Thesaurus / puissant
other words for puissant
MOST RELEVANT
- 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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For he deemed a lady so much sought after must needs be a puissant dame.
THE MERRIE TALES OF JACQUES TOURNEBROCHEANATOLE FRANCE
Then 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 CHARTRES
High, puissant and redoubtable seigneur of Nointel, Jacques Bonhomme pardons you for the outrage he perpetrated upon you!
No more wars: puissant Ladies, shew conditions And freely I accept 'em.
BEAUMONT & FLETCHER'S WORKS (8 OF 10)FRANCIS BEAUMONT
Half an hour later, Haward rose from his chair and bowed low as to some highborn and puissant dame.
AUDREYMARY JOHNSTON
Puissant, pū′is-ant, adj. potent or powerful: strong: forcible.
It 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 MAETERLINCK
One dwelt near Exeter, full puissant, but an old man and an ancient.
TALES FROM THE OLD FRENCHVARIOUS
Tennyson, according to Matthew Arnold, was not un esprit puissant.
ALFRED TENNYSONANDREW LANG
And finally there is Rome itself, sombre, puissant, and both in language and ideals conquering by mass.
WORDS 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
- 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
- take-over
- telling
- titanic
- vehement
- vigorous
- violent
- virile
- weighty
- all-powerful
- arduous
- awesome
- ballbuster
- challenging
- colossal
- dismaying
- effortful
- great
- hard
- impressive
- indomitable
- intimidating
- labored
- laborious
- mammoth
- mighty
- murder
- onerous
- overpowering
- powerful
- puissant
- rough
- rough go
- staggering
- strenuous
- tall order
- toilsome
- tough
- tough proposition
- tremendous
- uphill
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.