Thesaurus / impotent
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The problem is clear—substantial government reforms in the face of impotent majority opposition can destabilize a democracy.
KEEP THE FILIBUSTER, THERE ARE BETTER WAYS TO REFORM A BROKEN SYSTEMDAVID FRENCHMARCH 23, 2021TIMEAll those other parties are small and mostly impotent because the two major parties have been successful at constraining upstarts.
WHAT HAPPENS TO AN ENTRENCHED TWO-PARTY SYSTEM WHEN ONE PARTY UNDERMINES THE SYSTEM?PHILIP BUMPFEBRUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThey have watched in impotent fury as the coronavirus pandemic has boosted governing parties such as Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and incumbent leaders such as Giuseppe Conte in Italy, pushing them to the political margins.
IS THE SLIDE OF EUROPEAN POPULISM PERMANENT?CHARU KASTURIOCTOBER 15, 2020OZYBusinesses, if no longer quite oblivious to global warming, seemed impotent to make changes that might slow it.
CAPITALISM IS IN CRISIS. TO SAVE IT, WE NEED TO RETHINK ECONOMIC GROWTH.KATIE MCLEANOCTOBER 14, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWChevy Chase’s bumbling Gerald Ford made America see the accomplished athlete as awkward and impotent.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WILL NOT SAVE YOUEMILY VANDERWERFFOCTOBER 2, 2020VOXAs so much time has elapsed since the orders were given, the persons that ordered them are quite impotent.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKFor the third time she watched a coronet slip through her strong determined impotent fingers.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONHamburg writhed impotent at his feet and the "heavy arm of justice fell on the canaille."
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONDine darted after him to box his ears, words being impotent, and Tessa went into the house.
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATERShe clasped her thin hands in a frenzy of impotent rage—with Anne Ashton had lain the real triumph, with herself the sacrifice.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODWORDS RELATED TO IMPOTENT
- absurd
- aimless
- around in circles
- fruitless
- futile
- going nowhere
- impotent
- in vicious circle
- inane
- inconsequential
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- insignificant
- irrelevant
- meaningless
- needle in haystack
- nongermane
- nonsensical
- not pertinent
- on treadmill
- powerless
- purportless
- remote
- silly
- stupid
- trivial
- unavailing
- uninteresting
- unnecessary
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- useless
- vague
- vain
- worthless
- can't cut it
- can't hack it
- can't make the grade
- clumsy
- helpless
- hog-tied
- impotent
- impuissant
- inadequate
- incapable
- incapacitated
- incompetent
- ineffectual
- inefficacious
- inefficient
- inept
- inoperative
- no can do
- no good
- not able
- not cut out for
- not equal to
- not up to
- out of commission
- powerless
- sidelined
- unfit
- unfitted
- unqualified
- unskilled
- weak
- antiseptic
- arid
- aseptic
- bare
- barren
- bleak
- dead
- decontaminated
- desert
- desolate
- disinfected
- dry
- effete
- empty
- fallow
- fruitless
- futile
- gaunt
- germ-free
- hygienic
- impotent
- infecund
- infertile
- pasteurized
- sanitary
- septic
- sterilized
- unfruitful
- unimaginative
- uninfected
- uninspired
- uninventive
- unoriginal
- unprofitable
- unprolific
- vain
- waste
- without issue
- amateur
- awkward
- blundering
- bungling
- bush league
- butter-fingered
- clumsy
- debilitated
- disqualified
- feeble
- heavy-handed
- ill-equipped
- impotent
- inadequate
- incapable
- incapacitated
- incompetent
- ineffective
- inefficient
- ineligible
- inept
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- maladjusted
- maladroit
- no good
- not cut out for
- not equal to
- not up to
- unable
- unapt
- unfitted
- unhandy
- unpracticed
- unprepared
- unproficient
- unqualified
- unskilled
- unskillful
- untrained
- useless
- weak
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.