powerless

Adjective

Meaning

Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

weak vulnerable strengthless unable dependent naked disabled inadequate exhausted ineffective useless inefficient incapable faint weakly

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Antonyms

powerful strong shogun almighty wow titan

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Phrases with the word

rendering powerless extremely powerless really powerless powerless nation absolutely powerless powerless person

Examples

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. Sigmund Freud

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. Thom Yorke

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paulo Freire

Justice without strength is powerless strength without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal

Against the beastly human being even the Gods are powerless. Czech Proverb

Close letter words and terms

powerism powerist powerlaw powerless nation powerless person powerless position