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. 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.

2. Marc Polymeropoulos:

   A highly partisan new CIA chief would be seen with great suspicion in foreign capitals, thereby rendering our liaison partnerships close to impotent until the next administration, simply put, that puts America at great risk.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Art Hackney:

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