 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
impotent
adjective
1: lacking power or ability; "Technology without morality is
barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"-
Freeman J.Dyson; "felt impotent rage" [ant: {potent}]
2: (of a male) unable to copulate [ant: {potent}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Impotent \Im"po*tent\, noun
One who is impotent. [R.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Impotent \Im"po*tent\, adjective [F. impotent, L. impotens, -entis;
pref. im- not + potens potent, powerful. See {Potent}.]
1. Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether
physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity;
destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm.
There sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent inhis
feet. --Acts xiv. 8.
O most lame and impotent conclusion! --Shak.
Not slow to hear,
Nor impotent to save. --Addison.
2. Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled;
ungovernable; violent.
Impotent of tongue, her silence broke. --Dryden.
3. (Med.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to
copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren; specifically,
in males: unable to achieve or sustain a penile erection.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
152 Moby Thesaurus words for "impotent":
acarpous, aimless, anemic, arid, asexual, asthenic, barren,
blank cartridge, bloodless, careless, castrated, castrato,
celibate, chicken, childless, cold, cowardly, crippled,
debilitated, desert, desolate, disabled, drained, dried-up,
drooping, droopy, dry, dud, dull, easy, easygoing, effete,
emasculate, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, eunuch,
eunuchized, exhausted, faint, faintish, fallow, featherweight,
feckless, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, forceless, frail,
frigid, fruitless, frustrated, gaunt, gelded, gelding, gone,
gutless, helpless, imbecile, imprecise, inadequate, incompetent,
indifferent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept,
infecund, infertile, infirm, invalid, invertebrate, issueless,
jejune, languid, languorous, lax, leached, lenient, lightweight,
limber, limp, listless, loose, lustless, marrowless, meaningless,
menopausal, negligent, nerveless, neuter, neutral, no go,
no-account, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific,
of no account, of no use, overindulgent, overpermissive,
permissive, pithless, pointless, pooped, powerless, purposeless,
relaxed, remiss, rubbery, sapless, sexless, sine prole, sinewless,
slack, slipshod, sloppy, soft, spineless, sterile, strengthless,
sucked dry, superfluous, teemless, unauthoritative, unavailing,
uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unhardened, unnerved,
unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unrestrained, unsexed,
unsexual, unsown, unstrung, untilled, useless, virgin, waste,
wasted, weak, weakling, weakly, without any weight,
without issue
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