MIGHTY (mightier, mightiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: mightier    , mightiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mighty mean? 

• MIGHTY (adjective)
  The adjective MIGHTY has 1 sense:

1. having or showing great strength or force or intensity

  Familiarity information: MIGHTY used as an adjective is very rare.

• MIGHTY (adverb)
  The adverb MIGHTY has 1 sense:

1. (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree

  Familiarity information: MIGHTY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIGHTY (adjective)

Comparative: mightier   
Superlative: mightiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or showing great strength or force or intensity

Context example:

the pen is mightier than the sword

Similar:

powerful (having great power or force or potency or effect)

Derivation:

might; mightiness (physical strength)

• MIGHTY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree

Synonyms:

mightily; mighty; powerful; right

Context example:

they rejoiced mightily

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)

 Context examples 

She is steered mighty strangely, for she doesn't mind the hand on the wheel; changes about with every puff of wind.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I seemed swinging in a mighty rhythm through orbit vastness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And a mighty suitable thing, too, and you may lay to that.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As we struggled on, nearer and nearer to the sea, from which this mighty wind was blowing dead on shore, its force became more and more terrific.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was no room in his brain for the universe and its mighty problems.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Good-fortune Jupiter, now in your home sector for all of 2020 (until December 19), will reach out to the mighty transiting Sun at a 60-degree angle, which indicates opportunities for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"We will do that gladly," returned the tiger; and all the other beasts roared with a mighty roar: "We will!"

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

My father is a mighty king, and gold have I in plenty as great as I require.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He talked, or rather roared, with such energy that others could but sit and listen, cowed with the mighty stream of words.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)