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(ɪmpətənt)
1. adjective
If someone feels impotent, they feel that they have no power to influence people or events.
The aggression of a bully leaves people feeling hurt, angry and impotent.
In impotent rage he got up and stalked up and down the flat.
Synonyms: powerless, weak, helpless, unable More Synonyms of impotent
2. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE]
If a man is impotent his penis fails to get hard or stay hard.

impotent in British English

(ˈɪmpətənt)
adjective
1. (when postpositive, often takes an infinitive)
lacking sufficient strength; powerless
2. 
(esp of men) unable to perform sexual intercourse
erectile impotence
3.  obsolete
lacking self-control; unrestrained
Derived forms
impotence (ˈimpotence) or impotency (ˈimpotency) or impotentness (ˈimpotentness)
noun
impotently (ˈimpotently)
adverb

impotent in American English

(ˈɪmpətənt)
adjective
1. 
lacking physical strength; weak
2. 
ineffective, powerless, or helpless
impotent rage
3. 
unable to engage in sexual intercourse, esp. because of an inability to have or sustain an erection
4.  Obsolete
having no self-control
SIMILAR WORDS:  ˈsterile
Derived forms
impotently (ˈimpotently)
adverb
Word origin
OFr < L impotens: see in-2 & potent

Examples of 'impotent' in a sentence
impotent

He admits that he worries for the country and for his party, and has been left feeling impotent stuck on the sidelines.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The alternative is to become impotent very fast.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGING IN TURBULENT TIMES (1980)
Central government has become the more impotent the bigger it has grown.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGING IN TURBULENT TIMES (1980)
They cannot be altogether surprised if people now lump them all together in impotent fury.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It makes your teeth itch with impotent rage.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Golf courses once tamed and made to look impotent are sinking their teeth into him.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Opposition captains fear that if he gets going they are likely to be impotent in the face of the onslaught.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This is known as impotent rage.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Government in these countries has not only been totally discredited; it has become totally impotent.
Peter F. Drucker THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER (2001)
The President seems impotent as storms rage around his head.
The Sun (2010)
Just look at how impotent the Government has been over the steel debacle.
The Sun (2015)
A second argument is that monetary policy becomes impotent if it is overused.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I feel impotent to offer any genuine help to sick people.
Christianity Today (2000)
Has the man been impotent?
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
So now you're in the cinema, shaking with impotent fury.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The remake was funny, full of good jokes, strong characters and little blasts of impotent rage.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Or a man becoming impotent if he's in a relationship that he can't admit he wants to leave.
The Sun (2012)
He was fat, he was used to having his own way, and he was loud in his impotent fury about the weather.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It also takes no account of the many American men made impotent by surgery for benign tumours they would have died with, not of.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)

In other languages
impotent

British English: impotent ADJECTIVE
If someone feels impotent, they feel that they have no power to influence people or events.
The aggression of a bully leaves people feeling hurt, angry, and impotent.
  • American English: impotent
  • Brazilian Portuguese: impotente
  • Chinese: 无力的
  • European Spanish: impotente
  • French: impuissant
  • German: machtlos
  • Italian: impotente
  • Japanese: 無力な
  • Korean: 무력한
  • European Portuguese: impotente
  • Latin American Spanish: impotente

Chinese translation of 'impotent'

impotent

(ˈɪmpətənt)

adj

  1. (frm, = powerless)
    1. [person, group] 无(無)力的 (wúlì de)
    2. [rage] 不起作用的 (bù qǐ zuòyòng de)
  2. (sexually) 阳(陽)萎的 (yángwěi de)
(adjective) 
Definition
not having the power to influence people or events
Bullies can leave people feeling hurt, angry and impotent.
Synonyms
powerless
weak
I was too weak to move my arms and legs.
helpless
We felt helpless in the face of the disaster.
unable
The military may feel unable to hand over power.
incapable
He lost his job allegedly for being incapable.
paralysed
frail
She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
incompetent
Lazy and incompetent workers were allowed to coast along.
ineffective
They are burdened with an ineffective leader.
feeble
While I was ill I was too feeble to even stand.
incapacitated
infirm
my infirm husband
nerveless
The phone dropped from his nerveless fingers.
enervated
Warm winds make many people feel enervated and depressed.
Opposites
able
,
strong
,
powerful
,
effective
,
capable
,
potent
,
competent

Additional synonyms

in the sense of enervated
Warm winds make many people feel enervated and depressed.
Synonyms
weakened,
spent,
done in (informal),
weak,
tired,
drained,
undermined,
exhausted,
fatigued,
rundown,
limp,
feeble,
sapped,
worn out,
debilitated,
unnerved,
washed out,
incapacitated,
enfeebled,
devitalized
in the sense of feeble
Definition
lacking in physical or mental strength
While I was ill I was too feeble to even stand.
Synonyms
weak,
failing,
exhausted,
weakened,
delicate,
faint,
powerless,
frail,
debilitated,
sickly,
languid,
puny,
weedy (informal),
infirm,
effete,
enfeebled,
doddering,
enervated,
etiolated,
shilpit (Scottish)
in the sense of frail
Definition
physically weak and delicate
She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
Synonyms
feeble,
weak,
puny,
decrepit,
infirm

Nearby words of
impotent

  • impostor
  • imposture
  • impotence
  • impotent
  • impound
  • impoverish
  • impoverished

Synonyms of 'impotent'

impotent

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