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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɒmˈnɪp.ə.tənt/
• (General American) IPA: /ɑmˈnɪp.ə.tənt/
• (Indic) IPA: /ɔːm.nɪ.po.ʈenʈ/
• ハイフネーション: om‧ni‧po‧tent

形容詞

omnipotent (comparative more omnipotent, superlative most omnipotent)

1. Having unlimited power, force or authority.

   Synonyms: almighty, all-powerful

   Coordinate terms: omnipresent, all-present; omniscient, all-knowing; omnicompetent

   Near-synonyms: plenipotent, plenipotentiary, omnicompetent

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 19:6:

     And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mightie thundrings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

   • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, pages 16–17:

     All the spirits of the elements bowed down before him; but the future was still hidden from his eyes, and Death was omnipotent.

2. (biology) Describing a cell (especially a stem cell) that is capable of developing into any type of cell or forming any type of tissue (also called a totipotent cell).

   Coordinate term: pluripotent

3. (archaic) Arrant.

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名詞

omnipotent (plural omnipotents)

1. An omnipotent being.

Further reading

• “omnipotent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “omnipotent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “omnipotent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.