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Synonyms for impotence
noun sterility

infertility
barrenness

unproductiveness
erectile dysfunction

infecundity

Synonyms
noun weakness

powerlessness

helplessness

feebleness

infirmity

Antonyms

soundness

strength

Concept Thesaurus for word impotence
2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT
Synonyms – noun

impotence
impuissance
inaptitude
invalidity
brutum fulmen
vox et proeterea nihil
Quaker gun.
prostration
syncope
exhaustion
orchotomy.
mollycoddle.

inability
imbecility
ineptitude
disqualification
blank
dead letter
inefficacy (inutility)
paralysis
sideration
softening of the brain
cripple

disability
incapacity
incompetence
inefficiency.
blank cartridge
bit of waste paper
failure
palsy
deliquium
inanition
old woman

disablement
incapability
indocility
telum imbelle
flash in the pan
dummy
helplessness
apoplexy
collapse
emasculation
muff

Synonyms – verbs

be impotent
collapse
drop
deprive of power
incapacitate
deaden
prostrate
becripple
draw the teeth of
garrote
clip the wings of
scotch the snake
unhinge
unnerve
geld

not have a leg to stand on.
faint
go by the board
disable
disqualify
cramp
paralyze
maim
throttle
ratten
put hors de combat
put a spoke in one’s wheel
unfit
enervate
alter.

vouloir rompre l’anguille au genou [“To want to break an eel at the knee” (French)]
swoon
end in smoke (fail)[more]
disenable
unfit
tie the hands
muzzle
lame
strangle
silence
spike the guns
break the neck
put out of gear.
emasculate
shatter, exhaust, weaken

vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents [“To want to seize the moon with one’s teeth” (French)].
fall into a swoon
render powerless
disarm
invalidate
double up
cripple
hamstring
garrotte
sprain
take the wind out of one’s sails
break the back
unman
castrate

Synonyms – adjectives

powerless
incompetent
unfit
unendowed
disabled
weaponless
indefensible
paralytic
nerveless
lustless
out of gear
on one’s beam ends
dead beat
graveled (in difficulty)
without a leg to stand on
nugatory
inadequate

impotent
innefficient
unfitted
inapt
armless.
defenseless
vincible
paralyzed
sinewless
emasculate
unnerved
rudderless
exhausted
helpless
hors de combat
inoperative
inefficacious (useless)

unable
ineffective
unqualified
unapt
harmless
sine ictu
pregnable
palsied
marrowless
disjointed
unhinged
laid on one’s back
shattered
unfriended
laid on the shelf.
good for nothing

incapable
inept
disqualified
crippled
unarmed
unfortified
untenable.
imbecile
pithless
out of joint
water-logged
done up
demoralized
fatherless
null and void
ineffectual (failing)

Synonyms – phrases
der kranke Mann [“The sick man” (German)]; “desirous still but impotent to rise” [Shenstone].
Antonyms

power

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