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Meanings of impotent in English

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ineficaz

Lacking power or ability; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J.Dyson.

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Examples for "potent"
1
The Easter Rising clearly still has a potent power 90 years on.
The Irish Times
2
In the seat of truth, in the presence of the potent King.
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
3
It's a particularly potent type of soul power we're dealing with here.
The Irish Times
4
U.S. officials see AQAP as perhaps the most potent foreign terrorism threat.
Reuters
5
Thus, the development of novel potent ATX inhibitors is of great importance.
Pubmed
Usage of impotent in English
1
Policy is not impotent: the traditional response is to cut interest rates.
The Irish Times
2
This left nowhere to express my impotent isolation and already difficult-to-place fury.
The Irish Times
3
Seton raged up and down the quay in impotent agony of mind.
The Odds / And Other Stories
4
Requests for help by parents in their search for teenagers were impotent.
Anil's ghost
5
In short, the Roman and Grecian races had become impotent and decrepit.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
6
The images dim to an impotent mauve and the stage act begins.
Unmanned
7
I felt I should go mad; I was so impotent, you see.
The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice / From "The New De...
8
The room expressed the ornate impotent gorgeousness of a useless leisure class.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
9
There was something almost fierce in it-almostlike impotent hatred of something.
The Head of the House of Coombe
10
Without a surplus labor army, the courts, police, and military are impotent.
War of the Classes
11
The very greatness of their power makes them, in that respect, impotent.
Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
12
That they restrain themselves tells him just how impotent they really are.
The windup girl
13
The royalist party, headed by General Poineau, had been distracted but impotent.
The Prince and Betty
14
They must necessarily be weak and impotent-theslaves of time and circumstance.
Thrift
15
So long as the enchantress was speaking, the spell was wholly impotent.
The Odds / And Other Stories
16
His spirits were broken, and he folded his arms in impotent despair.
Words for the Wise
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