1
often capitalized
: having absolute power over all
Almighty God
2
a
: relatively unlimited in power
an almighty board of directors
b
: having or regarded as having great power or importance
the almighty dollar
3
informal
: mighty
—used as an intensive
an almighty shock
almightiness
noun
: to a great degree : extremely
although he did not precisely starve, he was almighty hungry—
W. A. Swanberg
W. A. Swanberg
: god sense 1
—used with the
Synonyms
Adjective
- acute
- blistering
- deep
- dreadful
- excruciating
- explosive
- exquisite
- fearful
- fearsome
- ferocious
- fierce
- frightful
- furious
- ghastly
- hard
- heavy
- heavy-duty
- hellacious
- intense
- intensive
- keen
- profound
- terrible
- vehement
- vicious
- violent
Adverb
- achingly
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- extremely
- fabulously
- fantastically
- far
- fiercely
- filthy
- frightfully
- full
- greatly
- heavily
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- incredibly
- intensely
- jolly
- majorly
- mightily
- mighty
- monstrous [chiefly dialect]
- mortally
- most
- much
- particularly
- passing
- rattling
- real
- really
- right
- roaring
- roaringly
- seriously
- severely
- so
- sore
- sorely
- spanking
- specially
- stinking
- such
- super
- supremely
- surpassingly
- terribly
- that
- thumping
- too
- unco
- uncommonly
- vastly
- very
- vitally
- way
- whacking
- wicked
- wildly
Noun
Examples of almighty in a Sentence
Adjective
the almighty shock that we got when we received the bill
when we are young, we want our parents to be almighty and to be able to make everything right when something goes wrong
Adverb
that's an almighty large pumpkin you've grown there
Noun
the missionaries gave thanks to the Almighty for their miraculous deliverance from death
Recent Examples on the WebLawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
The Mavericks took the game over late in the third quarter, then saw the almighty Miami Heat cave like a sand castle caught in the South Beach tide.
—Randy Galloway, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2024
Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2023
Rutgers led 30-27 at halftime thanks only to a banked-in 28-footer, the other 19:58 of the half an almighty slog between two teams trading good defense and very bad offense back and forth.
—Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
The performance included tracks from the 28-year-old’s latest project Almighty So 2, and appearances from G Herbo, Ballout, Tadoe, Doo Wo, and his daughter Kay Kay, who was dedicated a track on the rapper’s 2012 debut album Finally Rich.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 18 June 2024
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Adjective
London appeared to be settling into its role as a close supporter of and wise counselor to the United States, then seen as brash and inexperienced but boasting the almighty dollar and enormous military power.
—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
The Mavericks took the game over late in the third quarter, then saw the almighty Miami Heat cave like a sand castle caught in the South Beach tide.
—Randy Galloway, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2024
Adverb
For decades during and after the Cold War, Turkey’s secularist devlet baba was seen as omnipotent, powerful, and almighty.
—Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2023
Rutgers led 30-27 at halftime thanks only to a banked-in 28-footer, the other 19:58 of the half an almighty slog between two teams trading good defense and very bad offense back and forth.
—Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
Noun
Rather than suggesting that Tubman’s prophetic visions and potent prayers were merely the product of temporal-lobe epilepsy or narcolepsy, Miles explores Tubman’s own explanation for their origin—the Lord God Almighty.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
The performance included tracks from the 28-year-old’s latest project Almighty So 2, and appearances from G Herbo, Ballout, Tadoe, Doo Wo, and his daughter Kay Kay, who was dedicated a track on the rapper’s 2012 debut album Finally Rich.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 18 June 2024
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“Almighty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/almighty. Accessed 30 Jun. 2024.
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