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 Web
Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
Nothing can get the almighty iPhone to cede its crown, but AirPods Pro’s value proposition skyrocketed into the stratosphere following this week’s update.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 30 Oct. 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
Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
Bruce Almighty jaunts through the travails of an ordinary person gifted the abilities of God, but there’s a cosmic horror to the prospect of a man accruing that kind of power.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
Chasing after a simpler trail of culpability keeps us circling back, decade after decade, to figure out how the music industry that enabled R. Kelly, a church of the almighty dollar where the hit is holy, has yielded yet another golden-eared terror.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
Nothing can get the almighty iPhone to cede its crown, but AirPods Pro’s value proposition skyrocketed into the stratosphere following this week’s update.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 30 Oct. 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
This release will be just over 500 bottles and proceeds will go to Ethan Almighty’s nonprofit that helps animals in need of care.
—Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
Bruce Almighty jaunts through the travails of an ordinary person gifted the abilities of God, but there’s a cosmic horror to the prospect of a man accruing that kind of power.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Almighty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/almighty. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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