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mighty🔊

(obsolete, rare) A warrior of great strength and courage.

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And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.

Very strong; possessing might.

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He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

Very heavy and powerful.

(colloquial) Very large; hefty.

Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.

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Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
Under his special eye / Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain; / He led me on to mightiest deeds / Above the nerve of mortal arm / Against the uncircumcised, our enemies;
Mighty was their fuss about little matters.

(informal) Excellent, extremely good.

(colloquial) Very; to a high degree.

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'He is a mighty handsome man!' 'I don't think so,' said Tess coldly.
"You see, between you an' me close-tiled, I look on this South American business as a mighty serious thing, and if I have a pal with me I want a man I can bank on."
I was mighty glad that our entrance into the interior of Caprona had been inside a submarine rather than in any other form of vessel. I could readily understand how it might have been that Caprona had been invaded in the past by venturesome navigators without word of it ever reaching the outside world, for I can assure you that only by submarine could man pass up that great sluggish river, alive.