Definition of impotent in English:

impotent

adjective ˈɪmpət(ə)ntˈɪmpətnt

1Unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless.
无能为力的，无助的；无能的
he was seized with an impotent anger
他被一种无能为力的怒气攫住了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Thus, they are impotent, powerless to confront the current regime.
- They feel impotent, seeing the effects of abuse lasting indefinitely while paedophiles receive lenient treatment.
- He's just lashing out in impotent frustration at the thought of neo-liberal policies being rejected yet again (as they have been in every election since 1990).
- I felt an impotent anger, but also a curiosity, rise in my chest.
- Yet it happened, and he felt helpless, powerless, and impotent.
- They found that, far from being the impotent rubber-stamp portrayed by earlier historians, the parliament of the 15th and 16th centuries was one of the most powerful bodies of its type in the world.
- The anger flared in both cheeks, burning his face with impotent rage.
- Watching her thrown into this heartbreaking cycle of events made us feel so small, so impotent, so powerless.
- If the world's most respected institution of international governance is rendered impotent by accusations as distorted and exaggerated as these, we should all fear the consequences.
- The end result is that we not only feel frightened - we often feel unable to respond, and feel powerless and impotent as individuals.
- Even though I have lots of people who hang on my every word and would do anything I told them to, I feel impotent and helpless.
- They acted as if they were impotent bystanders rather than elected officials charged by those who put them in office with maintaining civil order and ensuring the public's safety.
- We all regularly give money to relief agencies and television appeals such as Comic Relief, but the sheer enormity of the statistics and the feeling that aid campaigns only provide short-term aid leave us feeling impotent.
- The government fears that the union bureaucracy cannot indefinitely contain the mounting anger of public-sector workers with bombast and impotent protests.
- I think I actually saw her smirk at my impotent anger.
- Parents are either unable or unwilling to do anything, teachers have their hands tied, the police are impotent and the Judiciary Services have let us down.
- The more the mother tried to make her daughter go to school, the more the daughter refused, and the more the mother felt helpless and impotent.
- However, when the dishes had been washed, the house grown quiet, and my light shut off, I tossed and turned in impotent fury at this, the latest, in forty years of such tirades from my mother.
- He couldn't stand feeling so impotent, so powerless.
Synonyms
powerless, ineffective, ineffectual, inadequate, weak, useless, worthless, vain, futile, unavailing, unsuccessful, profitless, fruitless
literary impuissant
weak, powerless, ineffective, lame, feeble, effete
informal past it
2(of a man) abnormally unable to achieve an erection or orgasm.
（男人）阳痿的
he was on medication which had made him impotent
Example sentencesExamples
- One night, she makes a pass at him, and though he tries to respond, he is impotent.
- These witches had used poisons to kill people or make them ill, often rendering men impotent and women sterile.
- The drugs he is on works by suppressing the male hormones which stimulate the growth of prostate cancer, he says - and a side effect is that they make him impotent.
- Beer mats and posters persuading impotent men to seek medical help are to be placed in dozens of Scottish pubs.
- Treatment of impotence leads to a major improvement in the quality of life for both the impotent male and his partner (s).
- In cases where the husband is impotent but not sterile, the sperm could easily be his, in which case the test tube child would have the same genetic make-up as a naturally conceived child.
- He's not impotent or physically handicapped, he just isn't very interested and says there is more to a relationship than sex.
- According to the findings of this study, about 120,000 U.K. men are impotent because of smoking.
- This tenet of common law states that unless a man can prove that he is sterile, impotent, or away from home at the time of conception, he is the legal father of any child born to his wife during their marriage.
- He is impotent and unable to satisfy his estranged wife.
- In addition, 5 percent of patients are impotent after the procedure, and 60 percent have retrograde ejaculation.
- It reportedly works for up to 70 percent of impotent men, a home run for the drug's manufacturer and a boon for the sex lives of couples across the nation.
- My husband and I have been married for two months but haven't had sex because he's impotent.
- Individuals, particularly men, on SSRIs may stop taking the drug because they may have greater difficulty achieving orgasm and/or become impotent.
- Perhaps one of the most interesting and difficult elements of impotence cases is trying to answer how the trial and its publicity affected the public reputation of the allegedly impotent man.
- Michael has other problems as well: his job involves experiments with animals, he's hung up on his father, he's impotent.
- Korean researchers had 45 impotent men take either 900 mg of Korean red ginseng or a placebo three times daily.
- Men who fail to have an erection on demand believe they are impotent and incapable of having sex.
- First, a man is ‘conclusively presumed’ to be the father of a child if he is both married to and cohabiting with the mother, as long as he is not sterile or impotent.
- Rumours of his extraordinary sexual powers spread and multiplied, though they were probably nonsense - there seems more evidence, indeed, to suggest that he was sexually impotent.
1. 2.1 (of a male animal) unable to copulate.
  （雄性动物）性无能的

Derivatives

impotently

adverb ˈɪmpət(ə)ntli

‘We raged impotently, wondering why this has happened to us, asking the usual questions of God and the universe,’ he writes.
Example sentencesExamples
- In fantasy literature the availability of power is in inverse proportion to the daily lives of a typical teenager, hemmed in by school and family and impotently yearning for autonomy.
- I suppose I'll get used to it in a few weeks and won't get so impotently angry at the futility of their actions for which they receive good money.
- These ordinary people, trying to get on with their normal working lives under terrible conditions, impotently await their fate.
- The state watches impotently as its culture, beamed in from the coasts, becomes coarser and more offensive by the year.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin impotent- 'powerless', from in- 'not' + potent- (see potent¹).

Definition of impotent in US English:

impotent

adjectiveˈimpətntˈɪmpətnt

1Unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless.
无能为力的，无助的；无能的
he was seized with an impotent anger
他被一种无能为力的怒气攫住了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Even though I have lots of people who hang on my every word and would do anything I told them to, I feel impotent and helpless.
- I think I actually saw her smirk at my impotent anger.
- Watching her thrown into this heartbreaking cycle of events made us feel so small, so impotent, so powerless.
- They acted as if they were impotent bystanders rather than elected officials charged by those who put them in office with maintaining civil order and ensuring the public's safety.
- The end result is that we not only feel frightened - we often feel unable to respond, and feel powerless and impotent as individuals.
- I felt an impotent anger, but also a curiosity, rise in my chest.
- The government fears that the union bureaucracy cannot indefinitely contain the mounting anger of public-sector workers with bombast and impotent protests.
- They feel impotent, seeing the effects of abuse lasting indefinitely while paedophiles receive lenient treatment.
- However, when the dishes had been washed, the house grown quiet, and my light shut off, I tossed and turned in impotent fury at this, the latest, in forty years of such tirades from my mother.
- If the world's most respected institution of international governance is rendered impotent by accusations as distorted and exaggerated as these, we should all fear the consequences.
- The anger flared in both cheeks, burning his face with impotent rage.
- Parents are either unable or unwilling to do anything, teachers have their hands tied, the police are impotent and the Judiciary Services have let us down.
- The more the mother tried to make her daughter go to school, the more the daughter refused, and the more the mother felt helpless and impotent.
- Thus, they are impotent, powerless to confront the current regime.
- We all regularly give money to relief agencies and television appeals such as Comic Relief, but the sheer enormity of the statistics and the feeling that aid campaigns only provide short-term aid leave us feeling impotent.
- Yet it happened, and he felt helpless, powerless, and impotent.
- He's just lashing out in impotent frustration at the thought of neo-liberal policies being rejected yet again (as they have been in every election since 1990).
- He couldn't stand feeling so impotent, so powerless.
- They found that, far from being the impotent rubber-stamp portrayed by earlier historians, the parliament of the 15th and 16th centuries was one of the most powerful bodies of its type in the world.
Synonyms
powerless, ineffective, ineffectual, inadequate, weak, useless, worthless, vain, futile, unavailing, unsuccessful, profitless, fruitless
weak, powerless, ineffective, lame, feeble, effete
2(of a man) abnormally unable to achieve a sexual erection.
（男人）阳痿的
Example sentencesExamples
- Individuals, particularly men, on SSRIs may stop taking the drug because they may have greater difficulty achieving orgasm and/or become impotent.
- One night, she makes a pass at him, and though he tries to respond, he is impotent.
- Treatment of impotence leads to a major improvement in the quality of life for both the impotent male and his partner (s).
- First, a man is ‘conclusively presumed’ to be the father of a child if he is both married to and cohabiting with the mother, as long as he is not sterile or impotent.
- In addition, 5 percent of patients are impotent after the procedure, and 60 percent have retrograde ejaculation.
- According to the findings of this study, about 120,000 U.K. men are impotent because of smoking.
- Perhaps one of the most interesting and difficult elements of impotence cases is trying to answer how the trial and its publicity affected the public reputation of the allegedly impotent man.
- Beer mats and posters persuading impotent men to seek medical help are to be placed in dozens of Scottish pubs.
- This tenet of common law states that unless a man can prove that he is sterile, impotent, or away from home at the time of conception, he is the legal father of any child born to his wife during their marriage.
- The drugs he is on works by suppressing the male hormones which stimulate the growth of prostate cancer, he says - and a side effect is that they make him impotent.
- Rumours of his extraordinary sexual powers spread and multiplied, though they were probably nonsense - there seems more evidence, indeed, to suggest that he was sexually impotent.
- It reportedly works for up to 70 percent of impotent men, a home run for the drug's manufacturer and a boon for the sex lives of couples across the nation.
- He is impotent and unable to satisfy his estranged wife.
- My husband and I have been married for two months but haven't had sex because he's impotent.
- These witches had used poisons to kill people or make them ill, often rendering men impotent and women sterile.
- He's not impotent or physically handicapped, he just isn't very interested and says there is more to a relationship than sex.
- Michael has other problems as well: his job involves experiments with animals, he's hung up on his father, he's impotent.
- Korean researchers had 45 impotent men take either 900 mg of Korean red ginseng or a placebo three times daily.
- Men who fail to have an erection on demand believe they are impotent and incapable of having sex.
- In cases where the husband is impotent but not sterile, the sperm could easily be his, in which case the test tube child would have the same genetic make-up as a naturally conceived child.
1. 2.1 (of a male animal) unable to copulate.
  （雄性动物）性无能的

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin impotent- ‘powerless’, from in- ‘not’ + potent- (see potent).

单词	impotent
释义	Definition of impotent in English: impotent adjective ˈɪmpət(ə)ntˈɪmpətnt 1Unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless. 无能为力的，无助的；无能的 he was seized with an impotent anger 他被一种无能为力的怒气攫住了。 Example sentencesExamples Thus, they are impotent, powerless to confront the current regime. They feel impotent, seeing the effects of abuse lasting indefinitely while paedophiles receive lenient treatment. He's just lashing out in impotent frustration at the thought of neo-liberal policies being rejected yet again (as they have been in every election since 1990). I felt an impotent anger, but also a curiosity, rise in my chest. Yet it happened, and he felt helpless, powerless, and impotent. They found that, far from being the impotent rubber-stamp portrayed by earlier historians, the parliament of the 15th and 16th centuries was one of the most powerful bodies of its type in the world. The anger flared in both cheeks, burning his face with impotent rage. Watching her thrown into this heartbreaking cycle of events made us feel so small, so impotent, so powerless. If the world's most respected institution of international governance is rendered impotent by accusations as distorted and exaggerated as these, we should all fear the consequences. The end result is that we not only feel frightened - we often feel unable to respond, and feel powerless and impotent as individuals. Even though I have lots of people who hang on my every word and would do anything I told them to, I feel impotent and helpless. They acted as if they were impotent bystanders rather than elected officials charged by those who put them in office with maintaining civil order and ensuring the public's safety. We all regularly give money to relief agencies and television appeals such as Comic Relief, but the sheer enormity of the statistics and the feeling that aid campaigns only provide short-term aid leave us feeling impotent. The government fears that the union bureaucracy cannot indefinitely contain the mounting anger of public-sector workers with bombast and impotent protests. I think I actually saw her smirk at my impotent anger. Parents are either unable or unwilling to do anything, teachers have their hands tied, the police are impotent and the Judiciary Services have let us down. The more the mother tried to make her daughter go to school, the more the daughter refused, and the more the mother felt helpless and impotent. However, when the dishes had been washed, the house grown quiet, and my light shut off, I tossed and turned in impotent fury at this, the latest, in forty years of such tirades from my mother. He couldn't stand feeling so impotent, so powerless. Synonyms powerless, ineffective, ineffectual, inadequate, weak, useless, worthless, vain, futile, unavailing, unsuccessful, profitless, fruitless literary impuissant weak, powerless, ineffective, lame, feeble, effete informal past it 2(of a man) abnormally unable to achieve an erection or orgasm. （男人）阳痿的 he was on medication which had made him impotent Example sentencesExamples One night, she makes a pass at him, and though he tries to respond, he is impotent. These witches had used poisons to kill people or make them ill, often rendering men impotent and women sterile. The drugs he is on works by suppressing the male hormones which stimulate the growth of prostate cancer, he says - and a side effect is that they make him impotent. Beer mats and posters persuading impotent men to seek medical help are to be placed in dozens of Scottish pubs. Treatment of impotence leads to a major improvement in the quality of life for both the impotent male and his partner (s). In cases where the husband is impotent but not sterile, the sperm could easily be his, in which case the test tube child would have the same genetic make-up as a naturally conceived child. He's not impotent or physically handicapped, he just isn't very interested and says there is more to a relationship than sex. According to the findings of this study, about 120,000 U.K. men are impotent because of smoking. This tenet of common law states that unless a man can prove that he is sterile, impotent, or away from home at the time of conception, he is the legal father of any child born to his wife during their marriage. He is impotent and unable to satisfy his estranged wife. In addition, 5 percent of patients are impotent after the procedure, and 60 percent have retrograde ejaculation. It reportedly works for up to 70 percent of impotent men, a home run for the drug's manufacturer and a boon for the sex lives of couples across the nation. My husband and I have been married for two months but haven't had sex because he's impotent. Individuals, particularly men, on SSRIs may stop taking the drug because they may have greater difficulty achieving orgasm and/or become impotent. Perhaps one of the most interesting and difficult elements of impotence cases is trying to answer how the trial and its publicity affected the public reputation of the allegedly impotent man. Michael has other problems as well: his job involves experiments with animals, he's hung up on his father, he's impotent. Korean researchers had 45 impotent men take either 900 mg of Korean red ginseng or a placebo three times daily. Men who fail to have an erection on demand believe they are impotent and incapable of having sex. First, a man is ‘conclusively presumed’ to be the father of a child if he is both married to and cohabiting with the mother, as long as he is not sterile or impotent. Rumours of his extraordinary sexual powers spread and multiplied, though they were probably nonsense - there seems more evidence, indeed, to suggest that he was sexually impotent. 2.1 (of a male animal) unable to copulate. （雄性动物）性无能的 Derivatives impotently adverb ˈɪmpət(ə)ntli ‘We raged impotently, wondering why this has happened to us, asking the usual questions of God and the universe,’ he writes. Example sentencesExamples In fantasy literature the availability of power is in inverse proportion to the daily lives of a typical teenager, hemmed in by school and family and impotently yearning for autonomy. I suppose I'll get used to it in a few weeks and won't get so impotently angry at the futility of their actions for which they receive good money. These ordinary people, trying to get on with their normal working lives under terrible conditions, impotently await their fate. The state watches impotently as its culture, beamed in from the coasts, becomes coarser and more offensive by the year. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin impotent- 'powerless', from in- 'not' + potent- (see potent¹). Definition of impotent in US English: impotent adjectiveˈimpətntˈɪmpətnt 1Unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless. 无能为力的，无助的；无能的 he was seized with an impotent anger 他被一种无能为力的怒气攫住了。 Example sentencesExamples Even though I have lots of people who hang on my every word and would do anything I told them to, I feel impotent and helpless. I think I actually saw her smirk at my impotent anger. Watching her thrown into this heartbreaking cycle of events made us feel so small, so impotent, so powerless. They acted as if they were impotent bystanders rather than elected officials charged by those who put them in office with maintaining civil order and ensuring the public's safety. The end result is that we not only feel frightened - we often feel unable to respond, and feel powerless and impotent as individuals. I felt an impotent anger, but also a curiosity, rise in my chest. The government fears that the union bureaucracy cannot indefinitely contain the mounting anger of public-sector workers with bombast and impotent protests. They feel impotent, seeing the effects of abuse lasting indefinitely while paedophiles receive lenient treatment. However, when the dishes had been washed, the house grown quiet, and my light shut off, I tossed and turned in impotent fury at this, the latest, in forty years of such tirades from my mother. If the world's most respected institution of international governance is rendered impotent by accusations as distorted and exaggerated as these, we should all fear the consequences. The anger flared in both cheeks, burning his face with impotent rage. Parents are either unable or unwilling to do anything, teachers have their hands tied, the police are impotent and the Judiciary Services have let us down. The more the mother tried to make her daughter go to school, the more the daughter refused, and the more the mother felt helpless and impotent. Thus, they are impotent, powerless to confront the current regime. We all regularly give money to relief agencies and television appeals such as Comic Relief, but the sheer enormity of the statistics and the feeling that aid campaigns only provide short-term aid leave us feeling impotent. Yet it happened, and he felt helpless, powerless, and impotent. He's just lashing out in impotent frustration at the thought of neo-liberal policies being rejected yet again (as they have been in every election since 1990). He couldn't stand feeling so impotent, so powerless. They found that, far from being the impotent rubber-stamp portrayed by earlier historians, the parliament of the 15th and 16th centuries was one of the most powerful bodies of its type in the world. Synonyms powerless, ineffective, ineffectual, inadequate, weak, useless, worthless, vain, futile, unavailing, unsuccessful, profitless, fruitless weak, powerless, ineffective, lame, feeble, effete 2(of a man) abnormally unable to achieve a sexual erection. （男人）阳痿的 Example sentencesExamples Individuals, particularly men, on SSRIs may stop taking the drug because they may have greater difficulty achieving orgasm and/or become impotent. One night, she makes a pass at him, and though he tries to respond, he is impotent. Treatment of impotence leads to a major improvement in the quality of life for both the impotent male and his partner (s). First, a man is ‘conclusively presumed’ to be the father of a child if he is both married to and cohabiting with the mother, as long as he is not sterile or impotent. In addition, 5 percent of patients are impotent after the procedure, and 60 percent have retrograde ejaculation. According to the findings of this study, about 120,000 U.K. men are impotent because of smoking. Perhaps one of the most interesting and difficult elements of impotence cases is trying to answer how the trial and its publicity affected the public reputation of the allegedly impotent man. Beer mats and posters persuading impotent men to seek medical help are to be placed in dozens of Scottish pubs. This tenet of common law states that unless a man can prove that he is sterile, impotent, or away from home at the time of conception, he is the legal father of any child born to his wife during their marriage. The drugs he is on works by suppressing the male hormones which stimulate the growth of prostate cancer, he says - and a side effect is that they make him impotent. Rumours of his extraordinary sexual powers spread and multiplied, though they were probably nonsense - there seems more evidence, indeed, to suggest that he was sexually impotent. It reportedly works for up to 70 percent of impotent men, a home run for the drug's manufacturer and a boon for the sex lives of couples across the nation. He is impotent and unable to satisfy his estranged wife. My husband and I have been married for two months but haven't had sex because he's impotent. These witches had used poisons to kill people or make them ill, often rendering men impotent and women sterile. He's not impotent or physically handicapped, he just isn't very interested and says there is more to a relationship than sex. Michael has other problems as well: his job involves experiments with animals, he's hung up on his father, he's impotent. Korean researchers had 45 impotent men take either 900 mg of Korean red ginseng or a placebo three times daily. Men who fail to have an erection on demand believe they are impotent and incapable of having sex. In cases where the husband is impotent but not sterile, the sperm could easily be his, in which case the test tube child would have the same genetic make-up as a naturally conceived child. 2.1 (of a male animal) unable to copulate. （雄性动物）性无能的 Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin impotent- ‘powerless’, from in- ‘not’ + potent- (see potent).
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