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omnipotent

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++om·nip·o·tent /ɒmˈnɪpətənt $ ɑːm-/ adjective formal  CANable to do everything 全能的 SYN all-powerfulomnipotence noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
omnipotentThe Lugbara also believe in a single omnipotent deity as the ultimate creator of life and the dispenser of death.Police culture is omnipotent is structuring such views of critical research.We had built a giant and omnipotent mortgage department; then we let half of it leave and fired the rest.The man reassuring him is, or has the authority of, the omniscient and omnipotent novelist.Nevertheless he was not omnipotent or omniscient, either.But any notion of a central planning authority, with if not exactly omnipotent powers over other government departments, soon foundered.Big, omnipotent, unpredictable, undependable and cruel.
Origin omnipotent (1200-1300) Old French Latin, from omni- ( → OMNI-) + potens ( → POTENT)
om·nip·o·tent adjectiveChineseSyllable
Corpus able do to everything


omnipotent
omnipotent /ɒmˈnɪpətənt $ ɑːm-/ adjective formal
 Date: 1200-1300
 Language: Old French
 Origin: Latin, from omni- ( omni-) + potens (, potent)
able to do everything
   SYN  all-powerful
—omnipotence noun [uncountable]


om·nipo·tentBrE /ɒmˈnɪpətənt/ 🔊NAmE /ɑːmˈnɪpətənt/ 🔊 adjective (formal) having total power; able to do anything 万能的;全能的;无所不能的an omnipotent God全能的上帝 om·nipo·tence BrE /ɒmˈnɪpətəns/ 🔊NAmE /ɑːmˈnɪpətəns/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] the omnipotence of God上帝的全能