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impotent
[ im-puh-tuhnt ]
adjective
- not potent; lacking power or ability.
Synonyms: ,
- utterly unable (to do something).
Synonyms: ,
- without force or effectiveness.
Synonyms: , , ,
- lacking bodily strength or physically helpless.
- (of a male) unable to attain or sustain a penile erection.
- (especially of a male) sterile.
- Obsolete. without restraint.
noun
- an impotent person:
therapy for sexual impotents.
impotent
/ ˈɪəəԳ /
adjective
- when postpositive, often takes an infinitive lacking sufficient strength; powerless
- (esp of males) unable to perform sexual intercourse See erectile impotence
- obsolete.lacking self-control; unrestrained
Derived Forms
- ˈdzٱԳٱ, adverb
- ˈdzٱԳ, noun
Other Word Forms
- p·ٱԳ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
ever strategy he chooses in 2028 — running illegally, stealing an election or simply declaring himself president-for-life — his goal is to have rendered the Supreme Court utterly impotent before then.
Democrats are all but impotent; Republicans have capitulated; the media is fractured.
"I'm now in another limbo and just feel totally impotent."
Right now Trump is busily flooding the zone, threatening people, making it seem as if he is a juggernaut who can't be stopped and any opposition is impotent.
The hit film, based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, promotes themes of female empowerment and resistance against a grifting, impotent entertainer posing as an all-powerful being.
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