all-powerful

all–powerful

adjective

Definition of ALL-POWERFUL

having unlimited power or authority <that country's monarch was never an all-powerful ruler, but one who shared power with a parliament>

Synonyms all-powerful, almighty

Related Words great, sovereign (also sovran), supreme, towering, transcendent; authoritative, chief, majestic, master, masterful; mighty, potent, powerful, puissant, strong; divine, godlike; able, capable, competent, effective, efficient; multitalented, omnicompetent, omnificent; authoritarian, autocratic (also autocratical), despotic, dictatorial, magisterial, tyrannical (also tyrannic)

Near Antonyms helpless, impotent, impuissant, powerless; limited, restricted; hamstrung, handcuffed, high and dry, hog-tied, paralyzed, weak; incapable, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inept, unfit, useless; feeble, frail, infirm

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