(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
<adv.all> the baby is mighty cute he's mighty tired it is powerful humid that boy is powerful big now they have a right nice place they rejoiced mightily [ adj ]
having or showing great strength or force or intensity
<adj.all> struck a mighty blow the mighty logger Paul Bunyan the pen is mightier than the sword
Mighty \Might"y\, a. [Compar. {Mightier}; superl. {Mightiest}.] [AS. meahtig, mihtig; akin to G. m["a]chtig, Goth. mahteigs. See {Might}, n.] 1. Possessing might; having great power or authority.
Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. --Job ix. 4.
2. Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful. ``His mighty works.'' --Matt. xi. 20.
3. Denoting an extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc. ``A mighty famine.'' --Luke xv. 14. ``Giants of mighty bone.'' --Milton.
Mighty was their fuss about little matters. --Hawthorne.
Mighty \Might"y\, n.; pl. {Mighties}. A warrior of great force and courage. [R. & Obs.] --1 Chron. xi. 12.
Mighty \Might"y\, adv. In a great degree; very. [Colloq.] ``He was mighty methodical.'' --Jeffrey.
We have a mighty pleasant garden. --Doddridge.
Fish caught near the Arctic mouth of Siberia's mighty Ob River reek of oil and are rendered inedible by sludge dumped along the river's more than 1,800-mile path.
As a result, even the mighty Deutsche Bank, which once took the lead in arranging credits for the Soviet Union, has begun sounding the alarm.
"They know that if the meeting doesn't go well in London, prices are likely to deteriorate and 75 cents will look mighty good," she added.
THE FALL of Mr Franz Steinkuhler, the one real star in the German trade union firmament, was in the end entirely self-inflicted. Few of his senior colleagues in the mighty IG Metall, the 3.3m strong engineering workers union, really wanted him to go.
East Germans rushed to their banks to withdraw their savings, hoping to get the best possible exchange rate with the mighty West German mark.
And so, with each mighty wave of sound, is a sea of small children.
The hospital's bulletin board breaks the news discreetly with a snapshot of a mighty shaheen labeled with the medical symbol for woman.
Between them, half a dozen mighty highways have sliced the landscape into noise-ravaged segments.
But it is by no means clear how much power will go to the government, which in Russia has been a poor relative of the mighty Communist Party, said Dmitri Simes, a Soviet emigre at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace in Washington.
East Germany would have been 41 years old on Sunday, but instead acceded to West Germany and transformed itself into just another five states of the mighty Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany.
The victorious World War II Allies in the West broke up I.G. Farben into several companies, including the mighty Bayer, Hoechst and BASF concerns.
Bush, who calls Houston his home town, invited about 80 power brokers, contributors and friends to the Fine Arts Museum for after-dinner entertainment and a chance to mingle with the mighty.
That explains why even mighty Merck, the biggest medicine maker, also has collaboration fever.
Mr. Granville, who had a mighty influence on the markets in the 1970s and early 1980s, lost most of his following a few years ago because of bad market calls.
Havel said Germans must ease fear of a mighty, unified German state, but called reunification a likely and positive consequence of improving relations among European states.
The Amex/CBOE partners clearly enjoyed the implication that the mighty Big Board would fall in line behind them.
This is an angry book, written by a man bitter at having had his advice rejected by the mighty.
When it didn't rise of its own accord, he gave a mighty heave and almost managed to get it to his chest before dropping it with a great thud, and reeling backwards.
Sieh said that when he digs into the mighty San Andreas, he doesn't think about the catastrophes it ultimately will unleash.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville _ mighty Casey has struck out.
It may threaten to separate in boom times, but when its cyclical economy collapses, help from Ottawa suddenly looks mighty appetizing to its fair-weather free-enterprisers.
Downed power lines after a hurricane are more likely to kill nowadays than the storm's fierce winds and mighty sea surges, according to a federal study of Hugo's swipe across Puerto Rico last month.
"You've got to know," said Halsey, "that you three are the first ladies who ever spent a night on the ship _ legally." Rep. John Allen, D-Miss., joined the House in 1895 and said he was mighty impressed with the other members.
The crash of mighty strokes.
Multiculturalism is a high and mighty program, as long as it is honestly practiced and doesn't try to pretend that Cervantes and Shakespeare don't exist.
Momenta is probably the best funded of a raft of fledgling concerns trying to show that the pen is as mighty as the keyboard.
The town is halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco in grassy, oak-dotted ranchland of the Cholame Valley, which straddles the mighty San Andreas Fault.
It's becoming mighty expensive for companies to sling mud at each other.
All eyes stared at the sheet of flame as the mighty Saturn 5 rose ponderously from Launch Pad 39A, precisely on schedule at 9:32 a.m., and sent a thunderclap across the scrubland.
Instead the mighty buildings stand for a hollow and horrific period of megalomania. Peter Adam has gathered from the slowly opening archives a good collection of visual images many of which have never been seen before.