Definition of potent Potent

/powˈtʌnt/ - [powtunt] - po•tent

We found 18 definitions of potent from 5 different sources.

What does potent mean?

WordNet

Adjective potent, potenter, potentest
potent - having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"
		strong, stiff
		impotent lacking power or ability; "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J.Dyson; "felt impotent rage"
		effectual, efficacious, effective marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough"
		fertile capable of reproducing
		powerful having great power or force or potency or effect; "the most powerful government in western Europe"; "his powerful arms"; "a powerful bomb"; "the horse's powerful kick"; "powerful drugs"; "a powerful argument"
		effectiveness, potency, strength power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect
		equipotent having equal strength or efficacy
potent - (of a male) capable of copulation
		virile
potent - having or wielding force or authority; "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"
		strong
		powerful having great power or force or potency or effect; "the most powerful government in western Europe"; "his powerful arms"; "a powerful bomb"; "the horse's powerful kick"; "powerful drugs"; "a powerful argument"
potent - having great influence
		powerful
		influential having or exercising influence or power; "an influential newspaper"; "influential leadership for peace"

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Wiktionary

potent (Noun)
A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes.
potent (Adjective)
Possessing strength.
potent (Adjective)
Being effective in small quantities.
potent (Adjective)
Having a sharp or offensive taste.
potent (Adjective)
Able to procreate.
potent (Adjective)
very powerful or effective.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

potent (a.)
Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
potent (a.)
Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
potent (a.)
Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
potent (n.)
A prince; a potentate.
potent (n.)
A staff or crutch.
potent (n.)
One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

potent
pō′tent, adj. strong: powerful in a physical or a moral sense: having great authority or influence.—n. a prince, potentate.—ns. Pō′tence, power: (her.) a marking of the shape of : in horology, the stud or counterbridge forming a step for the lower pivot of a verge (also Pō′tance); Pō′tency, power: authority: influence; Pō′tentate, one who possesses power: a prince.—adj. Pōten′tial, powerful, efficacious: existing in possibility, not in reality: (gram.) expressing power, possibility, liberty, or obligation.—n. anything that may be possible: a possibility: the name for a function in the mathematical theory of attractions: the power of a charge or current of electricity to do work.—n. Pōtential′ity.—adv. Pōten′tially.—n. Pōten′tiary, a person invested with power or influence.—v.t. Pōten′tiate, to give power to.—n. Pō′tentite, a blasting substance.—adv. Pō′tently.—n. Pō′tentness.—Potential energy, the power of doing work possessed by a body in virtue of the stresses which result from its position relatively to other bodies. [L. potens—potis, able, esse, to be.]