英语词汇“impotent”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

impotent

/ˈɪmpət(ə)nt

adjective

1Unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless: he was seized with an impotent anger...

Yet it happened, and he felt helpless, powerless, and impotent.
The end result is that we not only feel frightened - we often feel unable to respond, and feel powerless and impotent as individuals.
Thus, they are impotent, powerless to confront the current regime.

Synonyms

powerless, ineffective, ineffectual, inadequate, weak, useless, worthless, vain, futile, unavailing, unsuccessful, profitless, fruitless

literary impuissant

weak, powerless, ineffective, lame, feeble, effete

informal past it

2(Of a man) abnormally unable to achieve an erection or orgasm: he was on medication which had made him impotent...

He is impotent and unable to satisfy his estranged wife.
Rumours of his extraordinary sexual powers spread and multiplied, though they were probably nonsense - there seems more evidence, indeed, to suggest that he was sexually impotent.
He's not impotent or physically handicapped, he just isn't very interested and says there is more to a relationship than sex.

2.1(Of a male animal) unable to copulate.

Derivatives

impotently

/ˈɪmpət(ə)ntli

/ adverb ...

‘We raged impotently, wondering why this has happened to us, asking the usual questions of God and the universe,’ he writes.
The state watches impotently as its culture, beamed in from the coasts, becomes coarser and more offensive by the year.
In fantasy literature the availability of power is in inverse proportion to the daily lives of a typical teenager, hemmed in by school and family and impotently yearning for autonomy.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin impotent- 'powerless', from in- 'not' + potent- (see potent¹).

单词	impotent
释义	impotent /ˈɪmpət(ə)nt / adjective 1Unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless: he was seized with an impotent anger... Yet it happened, and he felt helpless, powerless, and impotent. The end result is that we not only feel frightened - we often feel unable to respond, and feel powerless and impotent as individuals. Thus, they are impotent, powerless to confront the current regime. Synonyms powerless, ineffective, ineffectual, inadequate, weak, useless, worthless, vain, futile, unavailing, unsuccessful, profitless, fruitless literary impuissant weak, powerless, ineffective, lame, feeble, effete informal past it 2(Of a man) abnormally unable to achieve an erection or orgasm: he was on medication which had made him impotent... He is impotent and unable to satisfy his estranged wife. Rumours of his extraordinary sexual powers spread and multiplied, though they were probably nonsense - there seems more evidence, indeed, to suggest that he was sexually impotent. He's not impotent or physically handicapped, he just isn't very interested and says there is more to a relationship than sex. 2.1(Of a male animal) unable to copulate. Derivatives impotently /ˈɪmpət(ə)ntli / adverb ... ‘We raged impotently, wondering why this has happened to us, asking the usual questions of God and the universe,’ he writes. The state watches impotently as its culture, beamed in from the coasts, becomes coarser and more offensive by the year. In fantasy literature the availability of power is in inverse proportion to the daily lives of a typical teenager, hemmed in by school and family and impotently yearning for autonomy. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin impotent- 'powerless', from in- 'not' + potent- (see potent¹).
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