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Comparative for unable to bear fruit, crops or offspring
“Once a crop had failed, the farmers abandoned the impotent land, moving their families and livestock a few miles away to clearcut more jungle and try all over again.”
Comparative for physically unresponsive to amorous cues
“It's a fact that too much depression may make you impotent in the sack.”
Comparative for being prevented from achieving one's aims or goals
“Excessive levels of debt will leave a company impotent in a competitive marketplace.”
Comparative for not producing a desired or effective result
“The county was undergoing an overwhelmingly expensive and ultimately impotent project in mass transportation.”
Comparative for lacking the power or ability to act effectively
“I do not want an impotent President conducting foreign policy in this country.”
Comparative for weak or lacking the strength to be effective
“The peasant of today, resigned and impotent in the face of death, has turned fatalistic.”
(obsolete) Comparative for lacking self-restraint or control
“Then, impotent of tongue, her silence broke. Thus turbulent in rattling tone she spoke.”
(colloquial) Comparative for timid, or showing a lack of courage
Comparative for lacking physical strength, especially due to illness or age
Comparative for lacking strength of character to follow one's own principles
(of a faculty or part of the body) Comparative for reduced in quality or efficacy
Comparative for completely overcome or helpless, especially with distress or exhaustion
Comparative for abstaining from extramarital, or from all, amorous relations
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