POWERFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does powerfully mean? 

• POWERFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb POWERFULLY has 2 senses:

1. in a powerful manner

2. in a manner having a powerful influence

  Familiarity information: POWERFULLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POWERFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a powerful manner

Synonyms:

powerfully; strongly

Context example:

the federal government replaced the powerfully pro-settler Sir Godfrey Huggins with the even tougher and more determined ex-trade unionist

Pertainym:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a manner having a powerful influence

Synonyms:

potently; powerfully

Context example:

Clytemnestra's ghost crying in the night for vengeance remained most potently in the audience's mind

Pertainym:

powerful (having great influence)

 Context examples 

The interest with which she thus anticipated the party, was soon afterwards increased, more powerfully than pleasantly, by her hearing that the Miss Steeles were also to be at it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The head is powerfully built with a broad skull and a long head.

(Black Russian Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

He swam powerfully and was dragged ashore by Pete and Hans at the very point where swimming ceased to be possible and destruction began.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The Bullmastiff is very powerfully built with a broad wrinkled head and fairly short, square, dark muzzle.

(Bullmastiff, NCI Thesaurus)

I suppose it was the recollection, so powerfully brought home to me by the grim surroundings, of that terrible experience in Transylvania.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Depression can have a powerfully negative effect on a parent’s ability to establish connections with their baby.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)

They began to drop off, to be brushed off against the sharp edge of the scuttle, to be knocked off by the legs which were now kicking powerfully.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This argument of the seneschal's appealed so powerfully to the Bohemian and to the Hospitaller that they at once intimated that their objections had been entirely overcome, while even the Lady Rochefort, who had sat shivering and crossing herself, ceased to cast glances at the door, and allowed her fears to turn to curiosity.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you have a natal planet at 20 degrees of Leo, Aries, Sagittarius, Gemini, Libra, or Aquarius, plus or minus five degrees, you will feel the effects of this full moon very powerfully and benefit from it—but keep an eye on your finances.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There was a nervous suspense over us all, as though overhead some dread bell would peal out powerfully when we should least expect it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)