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.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, impotent is tagged as adjective.
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