Hyphenation of powerful

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word powerful? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

pow-er-ful

Definitions of powerful:

1.	Having great power or force or potency or effect The most powerful government in western Europe His powerful arms A powerful bomb The horse's powerful kick Powerful drugs A powerful argument
2.	Strong enough to knock down or overwhelm A knock-down blow
3.	Having great influence
4.	(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight Rugged and powerful A hefty athlete A muscular boxer Powerful arms
5.	Displaying superhuman strength or power Herculean exertions
6.	(Southern regional intensive) very To a great degree The baby is mighty cute He's mighty tired It is powerful humid That boy is powerful big now They have a right nice place They rejoiced mightily

Synonyms of powerful:

adj	powerful, almighty, all-powerful, omnipotent, coercive, compelling, mighty, muscular, potent, strong, puissant, regent, regnant, reigning, ruling, effective, effectual, efficacious, potent, strong, strong
adj	knock-down, strong
adj	cogent, potent, influential
adj	brawny, hefty, muscular, sinewy, strong
adj	herculean, superhuman
adv	mighty, right

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.