Word Meanings - IMPOTENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren. (more info) 1. Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble;

Additional info about word: IMPOTENT

Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren. (more info) 1. Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm. There sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent inhis feet. Acts xiv. 8. O most lame and impotent conclusion! Shak. Not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. Addison. 2. Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent. Impotent of tongue, her silence broke. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPOTENT)

• Lame
• Weak
• faltering
• hobbling
• hesitating
• ineffective
• impotent
• crippled
• halt
• defective
• imperfect

Related words: (words related to IMPOTENT)

• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• CRIPPLY
  Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• CRIPPLENESS
  Lameness. Johnson.
• DEFECTIVE
  Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
• HESITATINGLY
  With hesitation or doubt.
• IMPERFECT
  1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential
• HOBBLEBUSH
  A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
• INEFFECTIVE
  Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.
• IMPOTENT
  Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren. (more info) 1. Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble;
• IMPERFECTIBLE
  Incapable of being mad perfect.
• HOBBLY
  Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.
• CRIPPLER
  A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.
• HOBBLE SKIRT
  A woman's skirt so scant at the bottom as to restrain freedom of movement after the fashion of a hobble. -- Hob"ble-skirt`ed, a.
• HESITATE
  haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast. Cf. Aghast, 1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate
• HESITATORY
  Hesitating. R. North.
• FALTERING
  Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton. -- n.
• CRIPPLE
  One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden. (more
• IMPERFECTIBILITY
  The state or quality of being imperfectible.