omnipotent

om-NIP-uh-tuntadj

Meaning all-powerful; having unlimited power

Memory hook OMNI + POTent: ALL-POWERFUL. In Pip’s daydream he lifts a whole house with one finger and waves away the rain clouds; he imagines he is omnipotent.

In the fairy tale, the omnipotent wizard could turn mountains into marbles with a wave of his wand.

In context The young king believed he was omnipotent, but the flood soon taught him that even a ruler cannot order the rain to stop.

Similar all-powerful, almighty, supreme, invincible

Opposite powerless, helpless, weak

From Latin omnipotens: omnis (all) + potens (able, powerful).

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