Adjective: impotent
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more impotent |
| Superlative | most impotent |
Sample Sentences
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Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent [1984, Freeman J. Dyson, Weapons and Hope:]
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A person smeared with the excrement of a mouse was rendered impotent, according to Pliny the Elder. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 158:]
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Then, impotent of tongue (her ſilence broke) / Thus turbulent in rattling tone ſhe ſpoke. [a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 444:]
Adjectives inflected like impotent
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old French impotent, from Latin impotēns, from in- (expresses negation) + potēns (“powerful”). See: Latin Adjectives '
impotēns'.
Verbs referencing "impotent"
Finnish Adjectives
impotentti.