Powerless Synonyms and Antonyms

pouər-lĭs
Lacking power or strength
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. helpless
  2. impotent
Antonyms:
  1. powerful
  2. strong
  3. dominant
  4. able
  5. potent
Lacking physical strength; said of persons
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. feeble
  2. infirm
Not capable of accomplishing anything
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. impotent
  2. ineffectual
  3. helpless
  4. crippled
  5. defenseless
  6. inadequate
  7. frail
  8. incapable
  9. impotent. weak
  10. impuissant
  11. nugatory
  12. unable
  13. weak
  14. unfit
  15. vulnerable
  16. worthless

Words Related to Powerless

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Powerless Sentence Examples

  • The walk calmed his irritation at being powerless for the first time since the Schism.

  • The things I wanted to do I was powerless to accomplish.

  • It was plundered by Henry VIII., to whom the memory of Becket was specially obnoxious; but the reformers were powerless to expunge the name of the saint from the Roman calendar, on which it still remains.

  • His enemies, headed by his elder brother Mikhail and the vicechancellor Vorontsov, powerless while his diplomacy was faultless, quickly took advantage of his mistakes.

  • Words are powerless to describe the desolation of that prison-house, or the joy of the soul that is delivered out of its captivity.

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