## Examples
- The car has a powerful engine.
- She is one of the most powerful leaders in the country.
- The wrestler had powerful arms and shoulders.

## Synonyms
- forceful
- mightful
- mighty
- potent
- powersome
- strengthful
- strong

## Antonyms
- powerless
- strengthless

## Derived Forms
- all-powerful
- nonpowerful
- overpowerful
- powerfully
- powerfulness
- semipowerful
- superpowerful
- ultrapowerful
- unpowerful

## Related Forms
- strong

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: pouerful
- Affix: -ful - full of

## Etymology
From Middle English pouerful, powarfull. By surface analysis, power + -ful.

## AI Etymology
Powerful comes from Middle English pouerful, powarfull. By surface analysis, power + -ful. The historical chain includes pouerful (Middle English). In present-day English it covers having great power, strength, or effect, having a lot of control or influence over people and events, and having physical strength. The wider family includes derived forms such as all-powerful, nonpowerful, overpowerful, powerfully, powerfulness and related forms such as strong.

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