- 1having no power to change things or to influence a situation synonym powerless Without the chairman's support, the committee is impotent. She blazed with impotent rage.
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- 2(of a man) unable to achieve an erection and therefore unable to have full sex
NAmE//ˈɪmpət̮əns//
noun [uncountable] a feeling of impotence in the face of an apparently insoluble problem male impotence adverb It irritated him to have to sit impotently in silence.See impotent in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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