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comparative more impotent, superlative most impotent
lacking physical strength or vigor; weak examples
lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless quotations examples
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent
1984, Freeman J. Dyson, Weapons and Hope
incapable of sexual intercourse, often because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection, having impotentia coeundi examples
(of a male) sterile examples
(obsolete) lacking self-restraint quotations
Then, impotent of tongue (her ſilence broke) / Thus turbulent in rattling tone ſhe ſpoke.
a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, page 444
plural impotents
a man who has erectile dysfunction examples
an impotent or powerless person examples