Explore Impotent through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like potent or ineffective. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Impotent in a sentence
Impotent meaning
- Lacking physical strength or vigor; weak
- Lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless
- Incapable of sexual intercourse, often because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection, having impotentia coeundi.
Synonyms of Impotent
Using Impotent
- The main meaning on this page is: Lacking physical strength or vigor; weak | Lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless | Incapable of sexual intercourse, often because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection, having impotentia coeundi.
- Useful related words include: potent, ineffective, ineffectual, unable.
- In the example corpus, impotent often appears in combinations such as: be impotent, and impotent, impotent to.
Context around Impotent
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Impotent
- In this selection, "impotent" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tragic, apparently, frothing, rage, people and offensively stand out and add context to how "impotent" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a frothing impotent rage about and african parliament impotent despite the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "impotent" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with impotent
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Bulega's neighbours allege that he is impotent. (8 words)
What a shameful, tragic, impotent people Americans have become. (9 words)
And it makes me feel fearful and sometimes impotent. (9 words)
Later, standing before our brick fireplace with one arm on the mantle piece, he joked that a prize Hereford bull imported at great expense from England for breeding stock by a ranching friend, “had better not be impotent”. (38 words)
While a touch more savagery might have been satisfying for some sections of the audience, the fact the Donald has worked himself into a frothing, impotent rage about the film suggests that it must be doing something right. (38 words)
Yet despite growing confidence in the Kremlin that victory can be secured in Ukraine, this attack – horrifying enough on its own, with the death toll likely to rise – has left Putin looking weak and impotent. (35 words)
I think the fallacy of single minded AI is that it becomes impotent without a general knowledge of the world (grow strawberries, fine, but it and what army? (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Its properties had been inverted: the self and its preoccupations were shrunken and impotent, and the exterior plane, with its prospects of imminent danger and disorder greatly enlarged.
Later, standing before our brick fireplace with one arm on the mantle piece, he joked that a prize Hereford bull imported at great expense from England for breeding stock by a ranching friend, “had better not be impotent”.
What a shameful, tragic, impotent people Americans have become.
Instead, the Rangers committed glaring and noisy mistakes, lost essentially every battle in which they chose to engage, and were impotent offensively.
John Setka resigns, and we learn that government and police have been impotent in showing the goons the full force of the law.
Now, the uni-party is huffing and puffing in impotent rage – slandering the as “crazies” and “extremists” and throwing snit-fits generally associated with angry toddlers.
The government is apparently impotent and unable to stop this menace.
While a touch more savagery might have been satisfying for some sections of the audience, the fact the Donald has worked himself into a frothing, impotent rage about the film suggests that it must be doing something right.
Yet despite growing confidence in the Kremlin that victory can be secured in Ukraine, this attack – horrifying enough on its own, with the death toll likely to rise – has left Putin looking weak and impotent.
Bulega's neighbours allege that he is impotent.
I think the fallacy of single minded AI is that it becomes impotent without a general knowledge of the world (grow strawberries, fine, but it and what army?
It is believed that the 2001 protocol had continued to render the African Parliament impotent, despite the conscious efforts made by members to deepen African integration at a faster speed.
And central bank policy proves impotent, combined with fiscal policy that is nonexistent.
And it makes me feel fearful and sometimes impotent.
As people, the more separate we are, the more politically impotent we become.
But what unresisting martyrdom fails (failed) to do, righteous and resisting force does (did) and (rendered) renders, tyranny impotent to do further harm.
For many civilians left in the region, there's nowhere left to run - they're impotent against the faceless killers in the sky.
In his response, Afeez, who did not deny that he was impotent as claimed by his wife, said he was already receiving treatment from competent hands.
In this case, however, they aren’t trying to make the lobbying group impotent.
It is impotent to note that I do not always agree with them either, but their views are important.
Common combinations with impotent
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- be impotent 6×
- and impotent 5×
- impotent to 5×
- impotent and 4×
- impotent rage 4×
- was impotent 4×
- impotent as 3×
- impotent in 3×
- is impotent 3×
- an impotent 3×