Definitions for potent

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potent po·tent

Spelling: [poht-nt]

IPA: /ˈpoʊt nt/

Potent is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in potent (enoptt).

Definitions for potent

noun

1. a fur having a pattern of T -shaped forms, placed in alternate directions and having alternating tinctures, one metal and one color, so that all forms of one tincture face the same way and are between, above, and below forms of the other tincture facing the other way.
2. a T -shaped form used in potent or counterpotent.

adjective

1. powerful; mighty:
2. cogent; persuasive:
3. producing powerful physical or chemical effects:
4. having or exercising great power or influence:
5. (of a male) capable of sexual intercourse.
6. (of a cross) having a crosspiece at the extremity of each arm:

Origin of potent

1490-1500; Latin potent- (stem of potēns), present participle of posse to be able, have power; see -ent

Examples for potent

None suspect that the potent santon is the traitor Jew; but I know it!

Woman's tears are the most potent resolvent know to chemistry.

The potent shared interest in defeating ISIS is one such avenue.

The dreaded name of Iroquois is potent, even across the centuries.

That all-American iconography has always been so potent in the Superman myth.

But the attacks could also weaken the most potent opponents to the dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Unless we see this we miss the most potent fact in the whole situation.

Example is one of the most potent of instructors, though it teaches without a tongue.

It was so potent, given all the ways the world is breaking many people, his people, down.

I said that mixture of glamour and vulnerability is potent, especially if you can sense the vulnerability.