impotent
adjective/ˈɪmpətənt/
/ˈɪmpətənt/
- having no power to change things or to influence a situation synonym powerless
- Without the chairman's support, the committee is impotent.
- She blazed with impotent rage.
- They were virtually impotent against the power of the large companies.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- prove
- …
- completely
- utterly
- virtually
- …
- against
- (of a man) unable to achieve an erection and therefore unable to have full sex
- The operation left him impotent.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- leave somebody
- …
- sexually
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from Latin impotent- ‘powerless’, from in- ‘not’ + potent- ‘being powerful, being able’ (from the verb posse).
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