Synonyms for potential
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
2. Influential — being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
influential, efficacious formal
Other
possible, latent, prospective informal, likely, undeveloped, implicit
Noun
1. Potentiality
2. Electric potential
Definitions
- adj. 1
Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
- adj. 2
Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
- n. 1
A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
Even from a young age it was clear that she had the potential to become a great musician.
- n. 2
The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- potentials → potentialities, potencies, voltages, talents…
Example sentences
- spiritual They gave him both material and spiritual support.
- possible I'd like to stay one more night. Is that possible?
- likely Tom isn't very likely to know anything about that.
- latent There are many latent gays among rampant homophobes.
By length
- 6 letters
- likely2, spirit2, talent2, latent2
- 7 letters
- virtual3, faculty3, voltage2, potency3
- 8 letters
- possible3, capacity4, implicit3, aptitude3, noumenon, noumenal
- 9 letters
- spiritual4
- 11 letters
- influential4, prospective3, undeveloped4, efficacious4
- 12 letters
- potentiality
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (likely2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- potentiel
- Deutsch
- potentiell