impotent
impotent
Definition
im·po·tent (im′pə tənt)
im′·po·tently adverb
impotent
Synonyms
impotent
modif.
impotent
Usage Examples
Preposition: as
- result: For some men who have become impotent as a result of surgery there may be treatment to restore erections.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- render: Comodo Personal Firewall renders malware impotent by preventing malware from making outgoing connections needed to harvest confidential consumer information.
Modifies a noun
- fury: And that, while beating my breast in impotent fury, is why I had to leave.
- rage: At best, there was impotent rage; at worst, a shrug of the shoulders.
- poor: The Elizabethan view of " sturdy beggars " was distinguished from the " impotent poor " in the legislation.
- man: The impotent man has no resource to cure his own disease.
- person: And be it further enacted, That the parents or children of every poor and impotent person.
- people: So, here are these ungodly, impotent people.
Modifying Another Word
- utterly: All power lies with States and alliances between States, while ' humanity ' is left utterly impotent.
- equally: Let the officers be wholly unselfish philanthropists, and they shall be equally impotent.
- largely: Continental electorates have become largely impotent, unable to effect decisive change in policy or in many cases even to change the political leadership.
- completely: In the political and economic spheres this pining for the purity of the Middle Ages is completely impotent.
- so: Nature is what we know - yet have not art to say - so impotent our wisdom is to her simplicity.
- not: Most of all, we are not impotent observers outside nature subject to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
Used with adjective complement
- render: Without fuel for energy a country, however powerful is rendered impotent.
- feel: We mustn't let the big boy corporate media make us feel impotent.
- become: I've been a heavy smoker for 40 years, and now I have become impotent.
- make: His limbs were nailed to a cross and made impotent.
- remain: Burke, Canning and Pitt would have remained impotent there.
Preposition: in
- face: Science is impotent in the face of the ultimate issues.
impotent Quotes
An impotent people, Sick with inbreeding. Worrying the carcase of an old song.
The mighty US suddenly seemed as impotent as a beached whale.
Browse dictionary entries near impotent
- impotence
- imposture
- impostor
- impost
- impossible
- impossibility
- imposition
- imposing
- impose on or upon
- impose
- impound
- impounded
- impoundment
- impoverish
- impoverished
- impower
- IMPP
- impracticability
- impracticable
- impractical
