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Another word for impotent

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impotent

modif.

Weak
powerless, ineffective, inept, infirm; see unable, weak 1.
Sterile
barren, frigid, unproductive; see sterile 1. See syn. study at sterile.

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Another word for impotent

adjective

Lacking power or strength:
helpless, powerless. See ability, help
Not capable of accomplishing anything:
helpless, inadequate, incapable, ineffectual, powerless, weak. See ability, strong
Unable to produce offspring:
barren, childless, infertile, sterile, unfruitful. See rich

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But in Protestantism reason and the light of nature are in themselves as impotent as in the Roman Church.
Instead, she slumped against the wall, defeated by alcohol and impotent rage.
The diet was ad extremely clumsy instrument of government, and it was perhaps never more discredited or more impotent than when it met Maximilian at Worms in March 1495.
But these people were rendered licentious in revolt or impotent for salutary action by ignorance, by terror, by uneasy dread of the doom declared for heretics and rebels.
Amid this reign of terror and of revolt the university, the only moral and intellectual force, taking the place of the impotent The Or- states-general and of a parlement carefully restricted to donnance the judiciary sphere, vainly tried to re-establish a firm Cabo- monarchical system by means of the Ordonnance Cabochienne.

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