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impotent

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of impotent

1 not able to produce fruit or offspring
  • Most mules are impotent.
Synonyms of impotent

barren, fruitless, infertile, sterile, unfruitful
Words Related to impotent

altered, desexed, neutered, sterilized

castrated, emasculated, gelded

spayed

unproductive
Near Antonyms of impotent

fecund, luxuriant, productive, prolific

enriched, fertilized, rich

impregnated, pregnant

potent

bearing, producing, yielding

blooming, bursting, flourishing, swarming, teeming
Antonyms of impotent

fat, fertile, fruitful
2 unable to act or achieve one's purpose
  • an impotent ruler who was just a figurehead
Synonyms of impotent

hamstrung, handcuffed, helpless, high and dry, hog-tied, impuissant, paralyzed, powerless, weak
Words Related to impotent

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

feeble, frail, infirm, passive, spineless, supine, unaggressive
Near Antonyms of impotent

able, capable, competent, effective, efficient

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

dominant, dynamic, energetic, forceful, robust, sturdy, tough, vigorous
Antonyms of impotent

mighty, potent, powerful, puissant, strong

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