impotent
About 1.64 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Lacking physical strength or vigor; weak
- adjective Lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless
- adjective Incapable of sexual intercourse, often because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection, having impotentia coeundi.
- adjective Sterile
- adjective Lacking self-restraint
- noun A man who has erectile dysfunction
- noun An impotent or powerless person
Similar words
weak ineffectual ineffective unable powerless helplessness impotence incompetent inefficient helpless
Often followed by
to and in rage as man or by fury
Word family
impotently impotents
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