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

having a strong physiological or chemical effect; " a potent toxin"; " potent liquor"; " a potent cup of tea"

( 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.

A staff or crutch.

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.

Mighty; powerful; energetic; having power or efficacy, in a moral or physical sense; having great authority or dominion.

The name of that potent Unknown seemed to be my only weapon in the contest with Detective Coogan, and I thought this a time to try its force. – Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott

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

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

But there is a power in war more potent than mere numbers. – Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War by G. F. R. Henderson

Surely, you are not a seaman, Captain Ludlow, without a secret dependence on some unseen and potent agency!" – The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas by James Fenimore Cooper

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

Like Alice, after the potent dose, the border shrank and shrank, until in time it became a gold frame, like the encadrement of any easel picture. – The Tapestry Book by Helen Churchill Candee

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

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

He is a lovely beast, it is true; but in a certain recess of this splendid form of his he keeps a modest supply of a certain potent and piercing poison, which would produce a wonderful effect on any flesh to which he chose to apply it. – Septimius Felton or, The Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Turner is more potent to- day, but his influence took longer to assert itself. – Constable by C. Lewis Hind

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

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

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

Present to help, potent to save, Pan- patron I call! – Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. Curry

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

It was potent to convince her that her brother Rowsley had cast the woman to her native obscurity. – Lord Ormont and his Aminta, v4 by George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English

There was an ancient feud between the families that had died out among the younger generation, but was still potent with the older. – Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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