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Synonyms & Antonyms of powerful
having great power or influence
- a powerful producer in the music business who is considered responsible for the careers of several superstars
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- authoritarian,
- autocratic
- (also autocratical),
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- magisterial,
- tyrannical
- (also tyrannic)
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