Powerless

Adjective

 * 1) Lacking sufficient power or strength.
 * You are powerless to stop me
 * 1) Lacking legal authority.
 * The traffic warden was powerless to stop me driving away.
 * The traffic warden was powerless to stop me driving away.

Derived terms

 * powerlessness

Adverbs for Powerless
pitiably; desperately; hopelessly; inefficiently; altogether; remarkably; deplorably; unhappily; ineptly; awkwardly; clumsily; timorously; terribly; lamentably; miserably; wretchedly; incredibly; curiously; oddly; singularly; pathetically; stupidly; astoundingly; utterly.

Thesaurus
anemic, asthenic, bloodless, chicken, cowardly, crippled, debilitated, decrepit, disabled, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, etiolated, faint, faintish, featherweight, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, forceless, gone, gutless, helpless, imbecile, impotent, inactive, incapable, incapacitated, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inert, infirm, languid, languorous, lightweight, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, nerveless, no-account, of no account, passive, pithless, pooped, rubbery, sapless, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, strengthless, supine, unable, unauthoritative, unfit, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weakly, without any weight

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: kraftlos


 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: nemoćan, obesnažen


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: nepravomoćan