Synonyms for impotent
ˈɪm pə təntim·po·tent

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1. impotentadjective

   Antonyms:
   potent

2. impotentadjective

   Antonyms:
   potent

3. impotentadjective

   Antonyms:
   potent

4. impotentadjective

   Antonyms:
   potent

5. impotentadjective

   Sterile.

   Synonyms:
   sterile, infertile

   Antonyms:
   potent

6. impotentadjective

   Lacking self-restraint.

   Synonyms:
   incontinent

   Antonyms:
   potent

7. impotentadjective

   Synonyms:
   helpless, powerless, weak, feeble, puny

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1. impotent

   Synonyms:
   weak, powerless, useless, feeble, helpless, nerveless, enfeebled

   Antonyms:
   strong, vigorous, powerful, virile

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1. impotentadjective

   lacking power or ability

   "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J.Dyson; "felt impotent rage"

   Antonyms:
   virile, equipotent, strong, potent, stiff, multipotent

2. impotentadjective

   (of a male) unable to copulate

   Antonyms:
   virile, potent, stiff, strong, equipotent, multipotent

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1. impotentadjective

   Synonyms:
   powerless, unable, incapable, incompetent, disabled, incapacitated, imbecile, weak, feeble, infirm, frail, inefficient

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1. List of paraphrases for "impotent":

   powerless, helpless, disablement

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1. Paul Valéry:

   Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

2. Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936:

   So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

3. Scott C. Holstad:

   Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield.

4. Winston Churchill:

   So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

5. Sergiu Spatan:

   Seeing the impotent dances of the bureaucrats in Brussels at the sight of the new waves of nationalism and populism.