powerless

Synonyms

hamstrung, handcuffed, helpless, high and dry, hog-tied, impotent, impuissant, paralyzed, weak;

Antonyms

mighty, potent, powerful, puissant, strong;

Near Antonyms

able, capable, competent, effective, efficient;

authoritarian, autocratic (also autocratical), despotic, dictatorial, magisterial, tyrannical (also tyrannic);

dominant, dynamic, energetic, forceful, robust, sturdy, tough, vigorous;

Related Words

incapable, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inept, unfit, useless;

feeble, frail, infirm, passive, spineless, supine, unaggressive;