Meaning of POWERLESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'pawurlis
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| | Definition: | | [adj] lacking power |
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| | Synonyms: | | engulfed, feeble, flooded, helpless, incapacitated, inundated, low-powered, nerveless, overcome, overpowered, overwhelmed, swamped, weak |
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| | Antonyms: | | powerful | | |
| | See Also: | | impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, uneffective | |
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| | Definition: | |  Powerless
Poems by a writer who died of AIDS as he was writing this book, which includes several poems about the disease. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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