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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Meaning of "all-powerful" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ALL-POWERFUL

all-powerful play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALL-POWERFUL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
All-Powerful is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ALL-POWERFUL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

all-powerful

Omnipotence

Omnipotence is unlimited power. Monotheistic religions generally attribute omnipotence to only the deity of whichever faith is being addressed. In the monotheistic philosophies of Abrahamic religions, omnipotence is often listed as one of a deity's characteristics among many, including omniscience, omnipresence, and omnibenevolence. The presence of all these properties in a single entity has given rise to considerable theological debate, the problem of theodicy prominently included.

Definition of all-powerful in the English dictionary

The definition of all-powerful in the dictionary is possessing supreme power; omnipotent.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALL-POWERFUL

all-metal body
all-night
all-nighter
All-Ordinaries Index
all-out
all-over
all-party
all-pervading
all-pervasive
all-points bulletin
all-purpose
all-right
all-risks insurance
all-round
all-rounder
all-seater
all-singing all-dancing
all-singing, all-dancing
all-sorts
all-star

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALL-POWERFUL

characterful
cheerful
colorful
dipperful
drawerful
dropperful
flowerful
masterful
powerful
prayerful
quiverful
saucerful
showerful
slumberful
sneerful
superpowerful
tumblerful
udderful
ultrapowerful
uncheerful
wonderful

Synonyms and antonyms of all-powerful in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ALL-POWERFUL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «all-powerful» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of all-powerful

Translation of «all-powerful» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALL-POWERFUL

Find out the translation of all-powerful to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of all-powerful from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «all-powerful» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无所不能
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

todopoderoso
570 millions of speakers

English

all-powerful
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सभी शक्तिशाली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جميع قوى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

всемогущий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

todo-poderoso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সর্বশক্তিমান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tout-puissant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Semua-kuat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

allmächtig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

全能の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

모든 강력한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kabeh-kuat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đầy nghị lực
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அனைத்து சக்திவாய்ந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सर्व-शक्तिशाली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çok güçlü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

onnipotente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wszechmocny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

всемогутній
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

atotputernic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παντοδύναμος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

al-magtige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

allsmäktig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

allmektig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of all-powerful

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALL-POWERFUL»

The term «all-powerful» is quite widely used and occupies the 52.317 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALL-POWERFUL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about all-powerful

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10 QUOTES WITH «ALL-POWERFUL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word all-powerful.
1
Giovanni Agnelli
Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
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Barbara Bush
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
3
A. S. Byatt
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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Alice Cooper
When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
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Barbara Ehrenreich
For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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Raph Koster
It's time to wake up to the fact that you're just another avatar in someone else's MMO. Worse: From where they stand, all-powerful Big Data analysts that they are, you look an awful lot like a bot.
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Kathryn Lasky
In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.
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Michael Leunig
It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.
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George B. McClellan
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
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Nostradamus
The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALL-POWERFUL»

Discover the use of all-powerful in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to all-powerful and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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How Can God Be All-Powerful and Totally Loving When He ...
Neither explanation reveals the Father of the universes real purpose. This book explores this question and provides a thorough and practical answer based upon a careful examination of the teachings of Christianity and from sacred scripture.
Keith A. Sherlin, 2009
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The Reasoner
The simple, sole being of infinity of expansion and of duration, who is all-knowing , all-powerful, and entirely free, is, necessarily, completely happy. 1. Every position which we cannot but believe is a necessary truth. But we cannot but believe ...
George Jacob Holyoake, 1850
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Thinking About God: First Steps in Philosophy
There are no limits to what an all-powerful, all-knowing being can do. 4. A good being always prevents evil as far as it can. Are these true? If they are, then the argument proves that there is no God. It turns out that both of them are false.
Gregory E. Ganssle, 2004
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Women and Evil
a notion of human love and compassionate living can guide the search for a god we can live with.28 THEODICY AND HUMAN SUFFERING If we believe that God is all-good and all-powerful, and if at the same time we see that there really is ...
Nel Noddings, 1991
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Ten Questions: A Sociological Perspective
How can a just and all-powerful God allow this to happen? What didJob do to deserve what happens to him? How is it possible, Kushner asks, for an all- powerful and all-just God to curse this just man, Job, with misery? Kushner concludes that ...
Joel M. Charon, 2012
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The Lover's Gift, Or, The Effusions of the Heart: Fondly ...
The recluse has felt its power ; It makes him in his cell to cower ;— All powerful Love! Conquer'd has the warrior been By the beauty he has seen ;— All powerful Love! Tyrants have been in its chain ; The conquer'd slaves could not restrain All  ...
Gulielmus, 1866
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In Plain Sight: Searching for a More Excellent Way
How can we reconcile the existence of a good and all-powerful God with a meaningful answer to the problem of pain [176]? Perhaps a partial response might be found in uncovering a distorted view of what is meant by the terms all powerful ...
R Curtis Royal, Dr, PhD, 2013
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Her Story: A Guide to the All-Powerful Mother God
Still, the West has yet to fully embrace the Divine Feminine. Hence, Her Story.
Cheryl Prevette, 2010
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A Feeling Intellect and a Thinking Heart
The problem can be expressed simply: God is all-powerful God is all-loving Evil exists. If God is all-powerful and all-loving evil should not exist. Had we the power we would certainly use it to save someone whom we love. We don't have the ...
Dane R. Gordon, 2002
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God and Evil: The Case for God in a World Filled with Pain
... there is a fine tuner who is all-powerful, all-knowing and perfectly good Second , there is a fine tuner who is all-powerful, all-knowing and morally indifferent to good and evil And third, there is a fine tuner who is all-powerful, allknowing and ...
Chad Meister, James K. Dew, Jr., 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALL-POWERFUL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term all-powerful is used in the context of the following news items.
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Israel's chief rabbinate is more irrelevant than ever
It showed that the chief rabbinate is no longer all-powerful and that's not a trivial thing. It's hard to blame the ultra-Orthodox for implementing the ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
2
Why was Zhou Yongkang denied a public trial like Bo Xilai's?
Until late 2012, Zhou had been a member of the Communist Party's all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee and one of the most feared ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
3
Did disillusionment with Sunnis lead to Persian ascendancy at US …
... completely unsuccessful at advancing US interests, it has been successful at convincing the entire Middle East that it is all-powerful and that, ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
4
What has Technology Done to us?
Though most of us turn to Google when in doubt, the-all-powerful-search-engine sometimes makes silly errors. For anyone who wants to know ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
5
Where is Google taking us?
The car takes me for a ride on the second morning of a three-day quest to discover in which direction the all-powerful search engine (now 16 ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
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Cologne Fine Art Fair Launches Contemporary Branch—Is Art …
In the past decade Germany's art scene has all but migrated to Berlin, leaving the once all-powerful Rhineland region struggling to compete. «artnet News, Jul 15»
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Keeping God in the Heart
To call upon God in times of despair, can give you comfort and solace as you have called upon the one Who is All-Powerful and is the only One ... «Onislam.net, Jul 15»
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Batman: Arkham Knight – The hero Gotham deserves (PS4 Review)
The Batmobile can seem a bit too all-powerful (Batman's no guns policy apparently doesn't apply here) but it definitely leans more to the fun ... «Techly, Jul 15»
9
Consequences Of The Greek Referendum May Severely Hit Global …
This should remind us that credit is not an all-powerful tool in economics, and we have been using credit as pretty much the only solution since ... «Seeking Alpha, Jul 15»
10
A Word To President Obama About “Gun Violence”
He views them as a threat to his one true faith, an all-powerful federal government. And of course, he views them as a vessel for crime and ... «Bearing Arms, Jul 15»

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