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impotent ['impәtәnt]
a. 无力的, 虚弱的, 无效的, 阳萎的
impotent
[ adj ]
- lacking power or ability
- (of a male) unable to copulate
<adj.all>
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent
felt impotent rage
<adj.all>
Impotent \Im"po*tent\, n.
One who is impotent. [R.] --Shak.
Impotent \Im"po*tent\, a. [F. impotent, L. impotens, -entis;
pref. im- not + potens potent, powerful. See {Potent}.]
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.
3. (Med.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to
copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren; specifically,
in males: unable to achieve or sustain a penile erection.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
One who is impotent. [R.] --Shak.
Impotent \Im"po*tent\, a. [F. impotent, L. impotens, -entis;
pref. im- not + potens potent, powerful. See {Potent}.]
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.
3. (Med.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to
copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren; specifically,
in males: unable to achieve or sustain a penile erection.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
- When both said no, Mr. Bush looked impotent.
- In the first week of January, he plans to tour trouble spots in the former Yugoslavia, turning his attention to a crisis where the EC has so far shown itself impotent.
- In a decentralized, free-market system these agencies would be impotent.
- And if the secretaries of state and defense are to be believed, they were impotent in the face of the maneuvering of a handful of White House aides.
- "It's a marvelous drug," says Alan, a Boston man who was made impotent by a spinal injury.
- They feel impotent." There are other serious problems.
- Now, those near the top of the Iraqi pyramid either are generals, carefully kept anonymous and without public following, or well-known political figures whose fates are so firmly fused with Saddam Hussein's as to render them impotent to act against him.
- Living costs in rural Tennessee are lower than Detroit's, but so are wages; Mr. Wright has never earned more than $8.50 an hour. And the unions are impotent, he complains.
- The Vatican was scorned by previous Soviet leadership as impotent for lack of military power.
- A State Department official said the Iranian announcement is part of a propaganda effort to show America "is impotent in the face of Iranian threats."
- At the same time, the exodus of nearly 100 Iraqi planes to safety in Iran suggested the Iraqi leader might be saving the cream of his air force from destruction now so he won't be left militarily impotent after the war ends.
- Briones says he was impotent at the time of the attack from drinking too much beer.
- To say an auditor was impotent in the past would not be true.
- Sixty to 70 percent of the 125 sterile or impotent patients who have been treated with "8311" were cured, said Dr. Ma Ran, deputy director of the No. 4 Hospital of Harbin.
- "I was outraged, but I was impotent," she says, adding that she decided to avoid the indignity of seeking a minimal payment and hasn't filed a claim.
- Of course, Stanislaw was totally impotent to defend his kingdom.
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