powerfully

adverb

Updated on: 11 Sep 2017

Definition of powerfully

:in a powerful manner

She expressed her opinions very powerfully.

:to a strong or powerful extent

a powerfully moving film

a powerfully aromatic dish

a powerfully built athlete

He was powerfully influenced by their advice.

Neither words nor the most detailed painting can evoke a moment of vanished time as powerfully and as completely as a good photograph.
—Beaumont Newhall

Recent Examples of powerfully from the Web

In this way, public safety and the First Amendment are powerfully linked.

— the tylt, AL.com, "Should protesters be allowed to carry guns?," 24 Aug. 2017
The Torah's tremendous concern for trees expresses itself powerfully in numerous parables.

— rabbi avi weiss, Jewish Journal, "Weiss: Each one of us is like the tree of the field," 21 Aug. 2017
The howling misery of his displacement circa 1947 resonates powerfully with the headlines of 2017: a grim story of the past for our grim present.

— janice p. nimura, New York Times, "Fiction From Japan, for the Old World and the New," 11 Aug. 2017
Rep. John Lewis of Georgia also testified against Sessions, powerfully invoking the history of racial injustice in the United States.

— helin jung, Cosmopolitan, "Who Is Jeff Sessions? 18 Things You Need to Know About Trump's Attorney General.," 25 July 2017
As its best properties enter their denouements and its newer projects fail to resonate as powerfully as their predecessors, AMC is a network in search of an identity.

— laura bradley, HWD, "When Will AMC Find Its Next Mad Men?," 19 July 2017
But what struck me most powerfully up there was the futility of walls.

— klara glowczewska, Town & Country, "Why Now Is the Time to Visit China," 14 July 2017
Jim Zahniser, with The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, said the idea of peer services has been around for decades but only recently have research studies shown how powerfully effective the approach can be.

— lauren silverman, Kaiser Health News, "In Texas, People With Mental Illness Find Work Helping Peers," 13 July 2017
Roy is writing powerfully about specific wars but also about all wars, which inevitably blur together in their pointlessness, violence and waste of blood and treasure.

— colette bancroft, star-telegram, "Arundhati Roy returns after 20 years, and it’s worth the wait," 26 June 2017

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