all-powerful

[awl-pou-er-fuhl]

adjective

1. having or exercising exclusive and unlimited authority; omnipotent.

all-powerful

adjective

1. possessing supreme power; omnipotent

Word History and Origins

Origin of all-powerful¹

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

Back in March, just after the Spring Statement, I asked Richard Hughes for his response to the critique that had been prevalent even then that the OBR is all-powerful.

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“Because I, an all-powerful goddess, know what is best.”

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They thought I was guilty of the highest heresy in the all-powerful Church of Fourth-Wave Feminism — choosing a straight man over your femme friends.

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Musk met Grimes while trying to make a dad joke about Roko’s Basilisk, a thought experiment about an all-powerful future artificial intelligence that punishes past critics via time travel.

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Under communism, an all-powerful central government owns all the land and factories, controlling every aspect of the country’s economy.

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• potent 
• robust 
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