impotent

[US]/'ɪmpət(ə)nt/

[UK]/'ɪmpətənt/

Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. lacking power or effectiveness; weak; unable to achieve or maintain an erection

he was seized with an impotent anger.

burning with impotent rage

The operation left him impotent.

They were virtually impotent against the power of the large companies.

So when those impotent excremental conformists Robespierre and the Jacobin gang banned women from political power, we took up the cause.

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