impotent

Speech parts

1. impotent - Noun

2. impotent - Adjective

Meaning

Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm.

Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent.

Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren.

One who is imoitent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

eunuch unable weak unsuccessful vulnerable disabled inadequate ineffective useless inefficient incapable vain weakly sterile unfit
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Antonyms

potent pearl tiger wow titan important
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Phrases with the word

impotent individual impotent man more impotent make impotent

Examples

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent Source: Internet

felt impotent rage Source: Internet

According to the historian Horace Mann, Stephen was an impotent observer, and that the responsible agent was in reality the Chartularius, Gratiosus. Source: Internet

Although her armor was not penetrated, she was hit by 26 shells of various calibers and temporarily rendered, in a US admiral's words, "deaf, dumb, blind, and impotent". Source: Internet

At the time these works were dismissed by most as pornographic fantasies of an impotent old man or the slapdash works of an artist who was past his prime. Source: Internet

A mysterious event renders all combustion based machinery, modern weaponry, and electric technology impotent and useless throwing the world in to a new dark age. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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