Powerless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Powerless \Pow"er*less\, a.
     Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not
     able to produce any effect. -- {Pow"er*less*ly}, adv. --
     {Pow"er*less*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  powerless
       adj : lacking power [syn: {weak}] [ant: {powerful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "powerless":
     anemic, asthenic, bloodless, chicken, cowardly, crippled,
     debilitated, decrepit, disabled, drooping, droopy, dull, effete,
     etiolated, faint, faintish, featherweight, feeble, flabby, flaccid,
     floppy, forceless, gone, gutless, helpless, imbecile, impotent,
     inactive, incapable, incapacitated, incompetent, ineffective,
     ineffectual, inefficacious, inert, infirm, languid, languorous,
     lightweight, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless,
     nerveless, no-account, of no account, passive, pithless, pooped,
     rubbery, sapless, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, strengthless,
     supine, unable, unauthoritative, unfit, unhardened, unnerved,
     unstrung, weak, weakly, without any weight