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MIGHTY
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Irregular inflected forms: mightier , mightiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or showing great strength or force or intensity
Example:
the pen is mightier than the sword
Classified under:
Similar:
powerful (having great power or force or potency or effect)
Derivation:
might; mightiness (physical strength)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
Example:
they rejoiced mightily
Synonyms:
mightily; mighty; powerful; right
Classified under:
Domain usage:
intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)
Context examples:
The whole consciousness of my life lorn, my love lost, my hope quenched, my faith death-struck, swayed full and mighty above me in one sullen mass.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If the rim of the plateau was indeed the highest point, then why should this mighty tree not prove to be a watchtower which commanded the whole country?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Tranter's great sword was indeed a mighty vantage in his favor.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Sir Thomas is to achieve many mighty things when he comes home,” said Mary, after a pause.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Ever was he a mighty hunter, and ever did he bring thee the good back-fat and the sweet dried tongues of the moose and the caribou.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Jo went prepared to bow down and adore the mighty ones whom she had worshiped with youthful enthusiasm afar off.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
You stand in the way not merely of an individual, but of a mighty organization, the full extent of which you, with all your cleverness, have been unable to realize.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the farther side of it, under the shadow of a mighty oak, there stood a singular group of three people.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The rain was pouring in torrents, and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains, so that I even saw not the faces of those mighty friends.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He now evinced displeasure at her repeated failures, and himself made a mighty spring upward.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
