having the power to influence or convince; " a cogent analysis of the problem"; " potent arguments"

( of a male) able to copulate

having or wielding force or authority; " providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"

Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.

Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.

Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.

A prince; a potentate.

One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.

Powerful; mighty; influential.

Potently.

Strong: powerful having great authority or influence.

Potency. Potentate.

Powerful; effective; convincing; controlling.

Potentness.

Powerful: having great influence or authority.

It is probable that the " well informed negro," who told the Birmingham editor that it was good schools that were drawing the negro, could have given other and more potent reasons had he been so minded. – Negro Migration during the War by Emmett J. Scott

Individuality and simple unaffected honesty of speech and action and look are the most potent charms and the most lasting that any woman can ever hope to have. – The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

His lamp was not less potent than Aladdin's. – A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

They depend almost entirely on the moral condition of the population, which we can never completely reform without the potent aid of the cures. – The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac

It is as potent as opium. – Clementina by A.E.W. Mason

Her good points were still too potent, although none could deny that all confidence in her efficiency was shattered past repair. – Paste Jewels by John Kendrick Bangs

Few facts have been more potent in determining the history of America than the steady migration in search of better opportunities. – Beginnings of the American People by Carl Lotus Becker

In the Spiritual World that is not the conspicuous thing, and it is obscure there just as gravity becomes obscure in the Organic, because something higher, more potent, more characteristic of the higher plane, comes in. – Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond

Still kneeling half in fun, half in sincere reverence, Naida held out the precious, potent cylinder of gold. – Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various

But, in the meantime, may not the Czar, who is a wise and potent Prince too, follow the example upon the neighbouring Princes round him that are Protestants? – Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century by Karl Marx