Another Word For POTENTIAL > Synonyms & Antonyms

Table of Contents

• 1. potential
• 2. potential
• Rhymes with Potential
• Pronounce Potential
• How do you spell potential? Is it potentional ?
• Potential in a sentence
• Quotes about Potential
• 3. high-potential
• 4. potential
• 5. potential

Table of Contents

• 1. potential
• 2. potential
• Rhymes with Potential
• Pronounce Potential
• How do you spell potential? Is it potentional ?
• Potential in a sentence
• Quotes about Potential
• 3. high-potential
• 4. potential
• 5. potential

Synonyms Antonyms Etymology

1. potential

adjective. ['pəˈtɛnʃəl'] existing in possibility.

Synonyms

• possible
• likely
• prospective
• future
• probable
• budding
• in the making
• latent
• embryonic
• developing
• dormant
• unrealized

Antonyms

• incapable
• inaptitude
• perfectibility
• imperfectibility

Etymology

• potentialis (Latin)
• potentia (Latin)

2. potential

noun. ['pəˈtɛnʃəl'] the inherent capacity for coming into being.

Synonyms

• possibilities
• potentiality
• prospects
• promise
• capability
• capacity
• ability
• power
• aptitude
• talent
• chance
• prospect
• potency
• possibility
• latency
• possible
• possibleness

Antonyms

• impotence
• impotency
• impossible
• nonexistence

Etymology

• potentialis (Latin)
• potentia (Latin)

Rhymes with Potential

• vice-presidential
• jurisprudential
• inconsequential
• nonresidential
• quintessential
• consequential
• providential
• presidential
• exponential
• existential
• confidential
• residential
• preferential
• nonessential
• influential
• tangential
• sequential
• reverential
• prudential
• differential
• deferential
• credential
• torrential
• essential
• hentschel

How do you pronounce potential?

Pronounce potential as pəˈtɛnʃəl.

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UK - How to pronounce potential in British English

How do you spell potential? Is it potentional ?

A common misspelling of potential is potentional

Sentences with potential

1. Adjective Subtract all of your expenses from your income to figure your potential savings or losses each month. 2. Noun, singular or mass Here are seven T-shaped kitchen island ideas that will help your culinary headquarters live up to its fullest potential.

Quotes about potential

1. Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! - Anne Frank 2. Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. - Ashley Smith 3. Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art. - Wynton Marsalis

3. high-potential

adjective. operating on or powered by a high voltage.

Synonyms

• high-tension

Antonyms

• undynamic
• low-voltage

4. potential

adjective. ['pəˈtɛnʃəl'] expected to become or be; in prospect.

Synonyms

• prospective

Antonyms

• capable
• incapability

Etymology

• potentialis (Latin)
• potentia (Latin)

5. potential

noun. ['pəˈtɛnʃəl'] the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts.

Synonyms

• electrical phenomenon
• potential difference
• potential drop
• evoked potential
• voltage
• resting potential

Antonyms

• unbelief
• potent
• powerlessness
• impotent

Etymology

• potentialis (Latin)
• potentia (Latin)

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