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1mighty
adjective \ˈmī-tē\
: having or showing great strength or power
: very great
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2
: accomplished or characterized by might <a mighty thrust>
3
: great or imposing in size or extent : extraordinary
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First Known Use of MIGHTY
before 12th century
Related to MIGHTY
- Synonyms
- heavy, heavy-duty, influential, important, potent, powerful, puissant, significant, strong
- Antonyms
- helpless, impotent, insignificant, little, powerless, unimportant, weak
2mighty
adverb
: to a great degree
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Usage Discussion of MIGHTY
Mighty used as an intensive usually conveys a folksy down-home feeling <plain and simple fare … but mighty filling and mighty satisfying — Asheville (North Carolina) Citizen-Times>. It is used especially to create a chatty style <turnip greens, corn bread and biscuits. That sounds mighty good to me — Julia Child> or to stress a rural atmosphere <a man must be mighty serious about his squirrel hunting — Stuart Williams, Field & Stream>. In a more formal context, mighty is used to create emphasis by drawing attention to itself <the chairman made sure that there were mighty few of them — Mollie Panter-Downes>.
First Known Use of MIGHTY
14th century
Related to MIGHTY
- Synonyms
- achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, very, monstrous [chiefly dialect], mortally, most, much, particularly, passing, rattling, real, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly
- Antonyms
- little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhat
MIGHTY Defined for Kids
1mighty
adjective \ˈmī-tē\
might·i·ermight·i·est
Definition of MIGHTY for Kids
1
: having great power or strength <a mighty nation>
2
: done by or showing great power or strength <mighty deeds>
3
: great in size or effect <a mighty famine>
2mighty
adverb
Definition of MIGHTY for Kids
: 1very 1 <a mighty good friend>
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