impotentadjective
uk/ˈɪm.pə.tənt/us/ˈɪm.pə.t̬ənt/impotent adjective (LACKING POWER)
not having the power or ability to change or improve a situation:
You feel so impotent when your child is ill and you cannot help them.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- man of straw
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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impotent adjective (SEXUAL PROBLEM)
If a man is impotent, he cannot have sex because his penis cannot become hard or stay hard.
If a man is impotent, he is unable to have children.