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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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. impotent

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

    Antonyms:
    strong, vigorous, powerful, virile

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. impotentadjective

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "impotent":

    powerless, helpless, disablement

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How to use impotent in a sentence?

  1. Lionel Fatton:

    If true, it means current South Korean and Japanese missile defense systems become close to impotent.

  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. Art Hackney:

    In most of those states what they did worked but in Alaska it doesn't, in Alaska they had an impotent system.

  4. Dee W. Hock:

    Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

  5. President Reagan:

    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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