Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Impotence

Nouns
  • impotence
  • inability, disability
  • disablement, impuissance, imbecility
  • incapacity, incapability
  • inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity
  • indocility
  • invalidity, disqualification
  • inefficiency, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy
  • paper tiger
  • Quaker gun. inefficacy etc. (inutility) Inutility
  • failure etc. Failure. helplessness etc. adj.
  • prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition
  • emasculation, orchiotomy [Med.], orchotomy [Med.]. cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle
  • eunuch.
Verbs
  • be impotent etc. adj.
  • faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop
  • go by the board, go by the wayside
  • go up in smoke, end in smoke etc. (fail) Failure. render powerless etc. adj.
  • deprive of power
  • disable, disenable
  • disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands
  • double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of
  • throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote
  • ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, spike the guns
  • take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel
  • break the neck, break the back
  • unhinge, unfit
  • put out of gear. unman, unnerve, enervate
  • emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix. shatter, exhaust, weaken etc. Weakness.
Adjectives
  • powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent
  • inefficient, ineffective
  • inept
  • unfit, unfitted
  • unqualified, disqualified
  • unendowed
  • inapt, unapt
  • crippled, disabled etc. v.
  • armless. harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable. paralytic, paralyzed
  • palsied, imbecile
  • nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless
  • emasculate, disjointed
  • out of joint, out of gear
  • unnerved, unhinged
  • water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless
  • laid on one's back
  • done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized
  • graveled etc. (in difficulty) Difficulty
  • helpless, unfriended, fatherless
  • without a leg to stand on, laid on the shelf. null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing
  • ineffectual etc. (failing) Failure
  • inadequate etc. Insufficiency
  • inefficacious etc. (useless) Inutility.
Phrases
  • desirous still but impotent to rise" [Shenstone]
  • the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.