adjective
- Having great influence.
- synonyms: powerful
- Having or wielding force or authority.
- usage: "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"
- synonyms: strong
- Having a strong physiological or chemical effect.
- usage: "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea, "a stiff drink"
- Of a male. ( capable of copulation).
- synonyms: virile
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