almighty

See also: Almighty

English

Alternative forms

allmighty, all-mighty

Etymology

From Middle English almyghty, almighty, from Old English ælmihtiġ (“all-powerful”), from Proto-Germanic *alamahtīgaz, equivalent to al- +‎ might +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔːlˈmaɪti/
Rhymes: -aɪti
Audio (General Australian): (file)

Adjective

almighty (comparative more almighty, superlative most almighty)

(sometimes postpositive) Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful
Synonyms: all-powerful, omnipotent

God almighty
- The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Genesis 17:1: “I am the Almightie God.”
(slang) Great; extreme; terrible.
I heard an almighty crash and ran into the kitchen to see what had happened.
- 2012 May 21, Tom Fordyce, “England v West Indies: Hosts cruise home in Lord's Test”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:
  When Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen both went cheaply inside the first hour on the fifth day, a further 134 were needed and there was a genuine sense that an almighty upset might just come off.
(by extension) Having very great power, influence, etc.
The almighty press condemned him without trial.

Derived terms

Related terms

might
mighty

Translations

unlimited in might

Amharic: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: ամենազոր (hy) (amenazor)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܚܝܼܕ ܟܠ m (aḥīd kul)
Belarusian: усёмагу́тны (usjomahútny)
Bikol Central: makakamhan
Bulgarian: всеси́лен (bg) (vsesílen), всемогъ́щ (bg) (vsemogǎ́št)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: omnipotent (ca), totpoderós
Chinese:
Mandarin: 全能的 (zh) (quánnéng de)
Czech: všemohoucí (cs), všemocný
Danish: almægtig
Dutch: almachtig (nl)
Esperanto: ĉiopova
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: almáttugur
Finnish: kaikkivaltias (fi), kaikkivoipa (fi)
French: tout-puissant (fr)
Friulian: onipotent
Galician: omnipotente, todopoderoso
Georgian: ყოვლისშემძლე (q̇ovlisšemʒle), ყოვლადძლიერი (q̇ovladʒlieri)
German: allmächtig (de)
Greek: παντοδύναμος (el) (pantodýnamos)
Ancient: παντοκράτωρ (pantokrátōr)
Hebrew: כֹּל יָכוֹל m (kol yachól)
Hungarian: mindenható (hu)
Icelandic: almáttugur
Ido: please add this translation if you can
Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
Irish: uilechumhachtach
Italian: onnipotente (it), onnipossente
Japanese: 全能の (ja) (ぜんのうの, zennō no)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 전능하다 (ko) (jeonneunghada)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خاوەند (xawend)
Latin: omnipotēns
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: семоќен (semoḱen), севишен (sevišen)
Manx: ooilley-niartal
Norwegian:
Bokmål: allmektig (no)

Nynorsk: allmektig
Occitan: omnipotent (oc)
Old English: ælmihtiġ
Polish: wszechmogący (pl), wszechmocny (pl)
Portuguese: onipotente (pt), todo-poderoso (pt)
Punjabi: ਕਦੀਰ (kadīr), قدیر (qder)
Romagnol: unipotént
Romanian: atotputernic (ro), omnipotent (ro)
Russian: всемогу́щий (ru) (vsemogúščij), всеси́льный (ru) (vsesílʹnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: uile-chumhachdach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: све̏могӯћ

Roman: svȅmogūć
Slovak: všemohúci, všemocný
Slovene: vsemogočen (sl)
Spanish: omnipotente (es), todopoderoso (es)
Swedish: allsmäktig (sv), omnipotent (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: всемогу́тній (vsemohútnij), всемогу́чий (vsemohúčyj), всемогу́щий (vsemohúščyj), всеси́льний (vsesýlʹnyj)
Vietnamese: toàn năng (vi)
Welsh: hollalluog (cy)
Yiddish: אַלמעכטיק (almekhtik)

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Translations to be checked

Arabic: ^{(please verify)} جل جلاله (jala jalaluh)

Adverb

almighty (not comparable)

(slang, colloquial) Extremely; thoroughly.
- 2007, Richard Laymon, Savage, page 203:
  I stepped into the clear, rushing water. It was almighty cold!