Impotent means lacking power or authority. Captain Bligh was impotent in the face of Christian's mutiny. It also refers to a man's inability to achieve or maintain an erection. If a man is sterile, or unable to reproduce, he is also called impotent.
Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm.
Adjective
lacking power or ability; "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J.Dyson; "felt impotent rage"
Adjective
(of a male) unable to copulate
a.
Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether
physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of
force; weak; feeble; infirm.
a.
Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled;
ungovernable; violent.
a.
Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate;
also, sometimes, sterile; barren.
n.
One who is imoitent.
Impotent
There sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent inhis feet.
O most lame and impotent conclusion!
Not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.2.
Impotent of tongue, her silence broke.3.
Impotent
Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm.
One who is imoitent.
Usage Examples
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?
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Other Usage ExamplesIdeology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
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