impotent

Universal Words adjective 1 having no power to change things or to influence a situation: Without the chairman's support, the committee is impotent. * She blazed with impotent rage. 2 (of a man) unable to achieve an ERECTION and therefore unable to have full sex impotence noun [U]: a feeling of impotence in the face of an apparently insoluble problem * male impotence impotently adverb: It irritated him to have to sit impotently in silence.