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
Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
But when a deadly accident shines a harsh spotlight on Alex, his wife Maggie, and their sons Buster and Paul, the almighty Murdaugh facade begins to crumble leading Alex to take increasingly desperate measures to preserve the family name and protect his dark secrets.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Dec. 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
Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
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
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Adjective
Over near the western end of Europe, the UK is busy building one of the world’s most expensive railway projects, known as HS2 (High Speed 2), which now costs an almighty $416 million per mile.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
But when a deadly accident shines a harsh spotlight on Alex, his wife Maggie, and their sons Buster and Paul, the almighty Murdaugh facade begins to crumble leading Alex to take increasingly desperate measures to preserve the family name and protect his dark secrets.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Dec. 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
Chief Keef: Almighty So 2 The stopwatch started on rap’s postmodern era with Chief Keef’s Almighty So, released in late 2013—an obscure-sounding record misconstrued in its own time, whose intuitive style would inform just about every major rap trend in the decade to come.
—Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
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
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“Almighty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/almighty. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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