Antonyms for powerfully

Grammar : Adv

Spell : pou-er-fuhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpaʊ ər fəl

Definition of powerfully

Origin : c.1400, from power (n.) + -ful. Meaning "of great quality or number" is from 1811; colloquial sense of "exceedingly" (adv.) is from 1822. Related: Powerfully. Thornton ("American Glossary") notes powerful as "Much used by common people in the sense of very," along with monstrous and cites curious expressions such as devilish good, monstrous pretty (1799), dreadful polite, cruel pretty, abominable fine (1803), "or when a young lady admires a lap dog for being so vastly small and declares him prodigious handsome" (1799).

adv with energy, authority

Example sentences :

These troubles in the Church so powerfully affected them that they withdrew.
Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook

But Pierre was unable to pray, so powerfully did revolt stir him.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

He talked of Monferrand's followers who had so powerfully helped him on to victory.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

Both lived amongst the people, and powerfully influenced them for good.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

All this which, in the case of another I should have laughed at, most powerfully affected me in my own.
Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu

I hear that you are also powerfully borne onwards in prayer and song.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

It was as a powerfully equipped nature that I found him interesting.
Extract from : « Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ » by Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes

For me there were none of those aids which so powerfully assist the return to health.
Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever

The others are first-rate—though a heap of them are powerfully young.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

He was powerfully drawn to the Medieval Church, but not to the Primitive.
Extract from : « Apologia Pro Vita Sua » by John Henry Cardinal Newman

Synonyms for powerfully

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