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Adjective: impotent  im-pu-t(u)nt
  1. Lacking power or ability
    "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"; "felt impotent rage"
     
  2. (of a male) unable to copulate
    "The impotent ram was removed from the breeding program"

See also: effectiveness, effete, impuissant, ineffective, ineffectual, infertile, pathetic, potency, powerless, sterile, strength, unable, unfertile, useless [informal], wet [Brit, informal]

Antonym: potent

Encyclopedia: Impotent