Mighty \Might"y\, n.; pl. Mighties.
A warrior of great force and courage. [R. & Obs.] --1 Chron.
xi. 12.
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Mighty \Might"y\, adv.
In a great degree; very. [Colloq.] "He was mighty
methodical." --Jeffrey.
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We have a mighty pleasant garden. --Doddridge.
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Mighty \Might"y\, a. [Compar. Mightier; superl. Mightiest.]
[AS. meahtig, mihtig; akin to G. m[aum]chtig, Goth. mahteigs.
See Might, n.]
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1. Possessing might; having great power or authority.
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Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. --Job ix. 4.
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2. Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
"His mighty works." --Matt. xi. 20.
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3. Denoting an extraordinary degree or quality in respect of
size, character, importance, consequences, etc. "A mighty
famine." --Luke xv. 14. "Giants of mighty bone." --Milton.
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Mighty was their fuss about little matters.
--Hawthorne.
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mighty
adj : having or showing great strength or force or intensity;
"struck a mighty blow"; "the mighty logger Paul
Bunyan"; "the pen is mightier than the sword"-
Bulwer-Lytton
adv : (Southern regional intensive) very; "the baby is mighty
cute"; "he's mighty tired"; "it is powerful humid";
"that boy is powerful big now"; "they have a right nice
place" [syn: powerful, right]
[also: mightiest, mightier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
207 Moby Thesaurus words for "mighty":
Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
Homeric, able-bodied, absolute, abysmal, aggrandized, almighty,
apotheosized, armipotent, ascendant, astronomic, august,
authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, awesome,
awfully, beatified, beefy, big, bouncing, brawny, bulky, burly,
canonized, clothed with authority, cogent, colossal, commanding,
competent, comprehensive, consequential, considerable, controlling,
deep, deified, dominant, doughty, duly constituted, dynamic,
effective, elephantine, elevated, eminent, empowered, energetic,
ennobled, enormous, enshrined, enthroned, epic, ex officio,
exalted, exceedingly, excellent, exhaustive, extremely, forceful,
forcible, forcy, full, full-blooded, full-strength, giant,
giantlike, gigantic, glorified, governing, grand, grave, great,
gutsy, gutty, hale, hard, hard as nails, hardy, hearty, heavy,
hefty, hegemonic, hegemonistic, held in awe, heroic, high,
high and mighty, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure,
high-tension, huge, hugely, husky, illustrious, immense, immortal,
immortalized, imperative, important, imposing, impressive,
in force, in power, indomitable, infinite, influential, intense,
iron-hard, irresistible, jumbo, just, large, leading, lofty, lusty,
magnified, main, mammoth, massive, maximum, mightily,
mighty in battle, momentous, monocratic, monster, monstrous,
monumental, mountainous, moving, muscular, nervy, obstinate,
official, only too, operative, plenary, potent, powerful,
powerfully, predominant, preeminent, prepotent, prestigious,
pretty, prodigious, profound, prominent, puissant, quite, ranking,
rattling, real, really, red-blooded, renowned, right, robust,
robustious, rugged, ruling, sainted, sanctified, senior, serious,
shrined, so, stalwart, steely, stout, strapping, striking, strong,
strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, stupendous,
sturdy, sublime, substantial, supereminent, superior, supreme,
surpassingly, telling, terribly, terrifically, throned, titanic,
total, totalitarian, towering, tremendous, valid, vast, very,
vigorous, vital, weighty, well-built, whacking, whopping, wieldy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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