¹omnipotent

adjective om·nip·o·tent \äm-ˈni-pə-tənt\

: having complete or unlimited power

Full Definition of OMNIPOTENT

often capitalized : almighty 1

: having virtually unlimited authority or influence <an omnipotent ruler>

obsolete : arrant

— om·nip·o·tent·ly adverb

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Rockefeller mostly left the uncertain task of drilling to thousands of independent producers, who then competed furiously to sell him crude oil at the cheapest possible price. As a result, he was loathed by the drillers, who saw him as an omnipotent deity shadowing their lives. —Ron Chernow, Vanity Fair, May 1998
Whether or not the Big Bang truly implies that the universe was created out of nothing by an omnipotent deity in a wholly gratuitous act of love, it does demonstrate that the universe is, as philosophers say, contingent—that is, it need not have existed. —Jim Holt, Harper's, November 1994
Tad fixes another round and by the time you all troop out of the bathroom you are feeling omnipotent. —Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, 1984
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Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin omnipotent-, omnipotens, from omni- + potent-, potens potent

First Known Use: 14th century

noun om·nip·o·tent \äm-ˈni-pə-tənt\

: one who has unlimited power or authority : one who is omnipotent

capitalized : god 1

He pursued his own thoughts without heeding me. ‘Jane! you think me, I daresay, an irreligious dog: but my heart swells with gratitude to the beneficent God of this earth just now. … I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower—breathed guilt on its purity: the Omnipotent snatched it from me.’ —Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1847