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impotent 音标拼音: ['ɪmpətənt] a. 无力的,虚弱的,无效的,阳萎的 无力的,虚弱的,无效的,阳萎的 impotent adj 1: lacking power or ability; " Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J. Dyson; " felt impotent rage" [ ant: { potent}, { stiff}, { strong}] 2: ( of a male) unable to copulate [ ant: { potent}, { virile}] Impotent \ Im" po* tent\, a. [ F. impotent, L. impotens, - entis; pref. im- not potens potent, powerful. See { Potent}.] 1. Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm. [ 1913 Webster] There sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent inhis feet. -- Acts xiv. 8. [ 1913 Webster] O most lame and impotent conclusion! -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Wanting the power of self- restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent. [ 1913 Webster] Impotent of tongue, her silence broke. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Med.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren; specifically, in males: unable to achieve or sustain a penile erection. [ 1913 Webster PJC]
Impotent \ Im" po* tent\, n. One who is impotent. [ R.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 152 Moby Thesaurus words for " impotent": acarpous, aimless, anemic, arid, asexual, asthenic, barren, blank cartridge, bloodless, careless, castrated, castrato, celibate, chicken, childless, cold, cowardly, crippled, debilitated, desert, desolate, disabled, drained, dried- up, drooping, droopy, dry, dud, dull, easy, easygoing, effete, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, eunuch, eunuchized, exhausted, faint, faintish, fallow, featherweight, feckless, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, forceless, frail, frigid, fruitless, frustrated, gaunt, gelded, gelding, gone, gutless, helpless, imbecile, imprecise, inadequate, incompetent, indifferent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, infecund, infertile, infirm, invalid, invertebrate, issueless, jejune, languid, languorous, lax, leached, lenient, lightweight, limber, limp, listless, loose, lustless, marrowless, meaningless, menopausal, negligent, nerveless, neuter, neutral, no go, no- account, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, of no account, of no use, overindulgent, overpermissive, permissive, pithless, pointless, pooped, powerless, purposeless, relaxed, remiss, rubbery, sapless, sexless, sine prole, sinewless, slack, slipshod, sloppy, soft, spineless, sterile, strengthless, sucked dry, superfluous, teemless, unauthoritative, unavailing, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unhardened, unnerved, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unrestrained, unsexed, unsexual, unsown, unstrung, untilled, useless, virgin, waste, wasted, weak, weakling, weakly, without any weight, without issue
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