| 单词 | impotency |
| 释义 | impotency (once / 17990 pages) n WORD FAMILY impotency: impotencies+/impotence: impotences/impotent: impotence, impotency, impotenter, impotently/potency: potencies, potential, prepotency/potent: impotent, potency, potenter, potentest, potently/potential: potentiality, potentially, potentials/potentiality: potentialities USAGE EXAMPLESBeating the Dodgers will make 2012’s collapse and 2014’s impotency sting less – it would make them feel like rites of passage, part of a quest. Washington Post(Oct 12, 2016) “It just shows more proof positive of the impotency of drug testing,” Mr. Yesalis said. New York Times(Jul 24, 2016) "This was way before Viagra. I played his alchemist who cured impotency with these wonderful spells." Los Angeles Times(Nov 13, 2015) 1n the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper impotence, powerlessness power, powerfulness possession of controlling influence helplessness, impuissance, weakness powerlessness revealed by an inability to act unpersuasivenessinability to persuade uninterestingnessinability to capture or hold one's interest voicelessnesshaving no voice in the management or control of affairs paper tigerthe nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualnesslacking the power to be effective dullnessthe quality of lacking interestingness heaviness, ponderousnessan oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency inefficaciousness, inefficacya lack of efficacy quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone 2n an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper impotence potence, potency the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse ED, erectile dysfunction, male erecticle dysfunction impotence resulting from a man's inability to have or maintain an erection of his penis infertility, sterility the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate |
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