Impotent

Adjective

 * 1) Lacking physical strength or vigor; weak.
 * 2) Lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless
 * 3) * Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent (Freeman J. Dyson).
 * 4) Incapable of sexual intercourse, often because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection.
 * 5)  Sterile.
 * 6)  Lacking self-restraint.

Synonyms

 * feeble, puny, weak
 * helpless, powerless
 * infertile, sterile
 * incontinent
 * incontinent

Antonyms

 * potent

Related terms

 * impotence

Thesaurus
acarpous, aimless, anemic, arid, asexual, asthenic, barren, blank cartridge, bloodless, careless, castrated, castrato, celibate, chicken, childless, cold, cowardly, crippled, debilitated, desert, desolate, disabled, drained, dried-up, drooping, droopy, dry, dud, dull, easy, easygoing, effete, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, eunuch, eunuchized, exhausted, faint, faintish, fallow, featherweight, feckless, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, forceless, frail, frigid, fruitless, frustrated, gaunt, gelded, gelding, gone, gutless, helpless, imbecile, imprecise, inadequate, incompetent, indifferent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, infecund, infertile, infirm, invalid, invertebrate, issueless, jejune, languid, languorous, lax, leached, lenient, lightweight, limber, limp, listless, loose, lustless, marrowless, meaningless, menopausal, negligent, nerveless, neuter, neutral, no go, no-account, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, of no account, of no use, overindulgent, overpermissive, permissive, pithless, pointless, pooped, powerless, purposeless, relaxed, remiss, rubbery, sapless, sexless, sine prole, sinewless, slack, slipshod, sloppy, soft, spineless, sterile, strengthless, sucked dry, superfluous, teemless, unauthoritative, unavailing, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unhardened, unnerved, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unrestrained, unsexed, unsexual, unsown, unstrung, untilled, useless, virgin, waste, wasted, weak, weakling, weakly, without any weight, without issue

Etymology
impotens:, from in-: (expresses negation) + potens:.

Translations

 * French: impuissant


 * Russian: бессильный, слабый


 * Russian: бессильный, слабый, беспомощный


 * Russian: импотентный, страдающий импотенцией


 * Russian: стерильный

Adjective

 * 1)  incapable of sexual intercourse