different between powerful vs husky

English

Alternative forms

• powreful, powrefull (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pouerful, powarfull, equivalent to power +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pa??f?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pa??f?l/
• Hyphenation: pow?er?ful

Adjective

powerful (comparative more powerful or powerfuller or powerfuler, superlative most powerful or powerfullest or powerfulest)

1. Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.
2. (mining) Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.

Synonyms

• mightful
• mighty
• powersome
• strengthful
• strong
• forceful

Antonyms

• powerless
• strengthless

Translations

See also

• strong

Adverb

powerful (comparative more powerful, superlative most powerful)

1. (Southern US) Synonym of very

Anagrams

• powreful

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?h?s.ki/
• Rhymes: -?ski

Etymology 1

From husk +? -y; in relation to voice, from the sense "dry as a husk" or "tough as a husk".

Adjective

husky (comparative huskier, superlative huskiest)

1. (of a voice) Hoarse and rough-sounding.
2. (US) Burly, stout.
   • 1910, Hamlin Garland, Other Main-Travelled Roads

     You look like a good, husky man to pitch in the barnyard […]

   • 1965, Popular Mechanics, September issue, page 22

     Word got around quickly that this plane, which has been flying since January, is bigger and huskier than our proposed C-5A […]

3. Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.

   • Some swains have sown before: but most have found
     A husky harvest from the grudging ground.

Derived terms

• huskily
• huskiness

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening of husky dog, where husky is ultimately from the same Old Montagnais root as Eskimo.

Noun

husky (plural huskies)

1. Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs.

Alternative forms

• huskie

Synonyms

• polar dog

Related terms

• Husky (“an Eskimo person; an Eskimo language”) (dated)
• Eskimo

Translations

See also

• husky on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• husky on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Czech

Etymology 1

Noun

husky

1. husky (breed of dog)

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

husky

1. (informal) Diminutive of husy

Declension

See huska

Synonyms

• husy
• husi?ky

Related terms

• husa
• huska
• husi?ka

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English husky

Noun

husky m (definite singular huskyen, indefinite plural huskyer, definite plural huskyene)

1. a husky (breed of dog)

References

• “husky” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English husky

Noun

husky m (definite singular huskyen, indefinite plural huskyar, definite plural huskyane)

1. a husky (breed of dog)

Spanish

Noun

husky m (plural huskys)

1. husky (dogs)