omnipotent
 om‧nip‧o‧tent/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]
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Big, omnipotent, unpredictable, undependable and cruel.
▪ But any notion of a central planning authority, with if not exactly omnipotent powers over other government departments, soon foundered.
▪ Nevertheless he was not omnipotent or omniscient, either.
▪ Police culture is omnipotent is structuring such views of critical research.
▪ The Lugbara also believe in a single omnipotent deity as the ultimate creator of life and the dispenser of death.
▪ The man reassuring him is, or has the authority of, the omniscient and omnipotent novelist.
▪ We had built a giant and omnipotent mortgage department; then we let half of it leave and fired the rest.
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