impotent
Lacking any force
Impotent means lacking power or effectiveness.
An impotent government cannot enforce its laws.
Impotent rage is fury without the ability to act on it.
The word also specifically means unable to achieve or maintain an erection: He became impotent after the surgery.
The noun is impotence.
Unable to act independently
- powerlessLacking strength or authority
- ineffectualFailing to achieve purpose
- incapableLacking requisite ability
- ineffectiveLacking power to achieve
paralyzed · hamstrung · disempowered · toothless · futile · debilitated · enfeebled · immobilized
Weak and ineffective
- enervatedDepleted of vitality
- debilitatedMade weak or infirm
- infirmWeak in body
- frailWeak and breakable
enfeebled · exhausted · languid · listless · sapped · withered · prostrate · anemic
Annoyed by obstacles
- exasperatedIntensely irritated, patience gone
- helplessUnable to act independently
- powerlessLacking strength or authority
- angryFeeling strong displeasure
resentful · thwarted · stymied · blocked · impeded · obstructed · seething · fuming
Lacking necessary skill
- ineptLacking skill or competence
- unfitNot suited for purpose
- deficientHaving too little
- lackingBeing without something
insufficient · unqualified · unskilled · unproductive · unsuitable · unsuccessful · unprepared · useless
Unable to produce offspring
- barrenUnable to produce
- unfruitfulFailing to produce results
- childlessLacking any offspring
- fruitlessProducing no useful outcome
unproductive · seedless · nonproductive · unfertilized · reproductively
helpless
Unable to act independently
- powerlessLacking strength or authority
- ineffectualFailing to achieve purpose
- incapableLacking requisite ability
ineffective · paralyzed · hamstrung · disempowered · toothless · futile · debilitated · enfeebled · immobilized · crippled
feeble
Weak and ineffective
- enervatedDepleted of vitality
- debilitatedMade weak or infirm
- infirmWeak in body
frail · enfeebled · exhausted · languid · listless · sapped · withered · prostrate · anemic · wasted
frustrated
Annoyed by obstacles
- exasperatedIntensely irritated, patience gone
- helplessUnable to act independently
- powerlessLacking strength or authority
angry · resentful · thwarted · stymied · blocked · impeded · obstructed · seething · fuming · incensed
incompetent
Lacking necessary skill
lacking · insufficient · unqualified · unskilled · unproductive · unsuitable · unsuccessful · unprepared · useless · incapable
infertile
Unable to produce offspring
- barrenUnable to produce
- unfruitfulFailing to produce results
- childlessLacking any offspring
fruitless · unproductive · seedless · nonproductive · unfertilized · reproductively
dysfunction
Abnormal or unhealthy operation
Cialis · arousal · performance · libido · vascular · psychological · hormonal · treatment · urologist
- strength wordsstrong, powerful, mighty, robust, sturdy
- weakweak, feeble, frail, fragile, faint
- IM- wordsimmature, immobile, immune, immerse, immoral
- fertility statesfertile, infertile, sterile, barren, fecund
- futilefutile, useless, pointless, fruitless, vain
- sterilesterile, germ-free, aseptic, sanitized, disinfected