'Impotent' definitions:
Definition of 'impotent'
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Definition of 'Impotent'
From: GCIDE
- Impotent \Im"po*tent\, n. One who is impotent. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Impotent'
From: GCIDE
- Impotent \Im"po*tent\, a. [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. [1913 Webster]
- There sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent inhis feet. --Acts xiv. 8. [1913 Webster]
- O most lame and impotent conclusion! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent. [1913 Webster]
- Impotent of tongue, her silence broke. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 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]
Synonyms of 'impotent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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