almighty

See also: Almighty

English

Alternative forms

• allmighty, all-mighty

Etymology

From Middle English almyghty, almighty, from Old English ælmihtiġ (“all-powerful”), from Proto-Germanic *alamahtīgaz, equivalent to al- +‎ might +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːlˈmaɪti/
• Rhymes: -aɪti

• Audio (General Australian):

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Adjective

almighty (comparative more almighty, superlative most almighty)

1. (sometimes postpositive) Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful

   Synonyms: all-powerful, omnipotent

   God almighty

   • The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Genesis 17:1: “I am the Almightie God.”
2. (slang) Great; extreme; terrible.

   I heard an almighty crash and ran into the kitchen to see what had happened.

   • 2012 May 21, Tom Fordyce, “England v West Indies: Hosts cruise home in Lord's Test”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     When Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen both went cheaply inside the first hour on the fifth day, a further 134 were needed and there was a genuine sense that an almighty upset might just come off.

3. (by extension) Having very great power, influence, etc.

   The almighty press condemned him without trial.

Derived terms

• almightiful
• almightily
• almightiness
• Almighty
• almighty dollar
• almightyship
• Christ almighty
• superalmighty

 

Related terms

• might
• mighty

Translations

unlimited in might

• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ամենազոր (hy) (amenazor)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܚܝܼܕ ܟܠ m (aḥīd kul)
• Belarusian: усёмагу́тны (usjomahútny)
• Bikol Central: makakamhan
• Bulgarian: всеси́лен (bg) (vsesílen), всемогъ́щ (bg) (vsemogǎ́št)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: omnipotent (ca), totpoderós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全能的 (zh) (quánnéng de)

• Czech: všemohoucí (cs), všemocný
• Danish: almægtig
• Dutch: almachtig (nl)
• Esperanto: ĉiopova
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: almáttugur
• Finnish: kaikkivaltias (fi), kaikkivoipa (fi)
• French: tout-puissant (fr)
• Friulian: onipotent
• Galician: omnipotente, todopoderoso
• Georgian: ყოვლისშემძლე (q̇ovlisšemʒle), ყოვლადძლიერი (q̇ovladʒlieri)
• German: allmächtig (de)
• Greek: παντοδύναμος (el) (pantodýnamos)

  Ancient: παντοκράτωρ (pantokrátōr)

• Hebrew: כֹּל יָכוֹל m (kol yachól)
• Hungarian: mindenható (hu)
• Icelandic: almáttugur
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: uilechumhachtach
• Italian: onnipotente (it), onnipossente
• Japanese: 全能の (ja) (ぜんのうの, zennō no)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 전능하다 (ko) (jeonneunghada)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خاوەند (xawend)

• Latin: omnipotēns
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: семоќен (semoḱen), севишен (sevišen)
• Manx: ooilley-niartal
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: allmektig (no)

  Nynorsk: allmektig

• Occitan: omnipotent (oc)
• Old English: ælmihtiġ
• Polish: wszechmogący (pl), wszechmocny (pl)
• Portuguese: onipotente (pt), todo-poderoso (pt)
• Punjabi: ਕਦੀਰ (kadīr), قدیر (qder)
• Romagnol: unipotént
• Romanian: atotputernic (ro), omnipotent (ro)
• Russian: всемогу́щий (ru) (vsemogúščij), всеси́льный (ru) (vsesílʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: uile-chumhachdach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: све̏могӯћ

  Roman: svȅmogūć

• Slovak: všemohúci, všemocný
• Slovene: vsemogočen (sl)
• Spanish: omnipotente (es), todopoderoso (es)
• Swedish: allsmäktig (sv), omnipotent (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: всемогу́тній (vsemohútnij), всемогу́чий (vsemohúčyj), всемогу́щий (vsemohúščyj), всеси́льний (vsesýlʹnyj)
• Vietnamese: toàn năng (vi)
• Welsh: hollalluog (cy)
• Yiddish: אַלמעכטיק (almekhtik)

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} جل جلاله (jala jalaluh)

Adverb

almighty (not comparable)

1. (slang, colloquial) Extremely; thoroughly.
   • 2007, Richard Laymon, Savage, page 203:

     I stepped into the clear, rushing water. It was almighty cold!

Further reading

• “almighty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “almighty”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “almighty”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.