Usually means: Unable to take effective action.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word impotent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. impotent: Merriam-Webster
  2. impotent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impotent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. impotent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. impotent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Impotent, impotent: Wordnik
  7. impotent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. impotent: Wiktionary
  9. impotent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. impotent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. impotent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. impotent: Dictionary.com
  13. impotent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. impotent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Impotent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Impotent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. impotent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. impotent: Rhymezone
  19. impotent, impotent, impotent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. impotent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. impotent: FreeDictionary.org
  22. impotent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. impotent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. impotent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. impotent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impotent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. impotent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. impotent: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. impotent: Medical dictionary
  5. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See impotently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lacking physical strength or vigor; weak
adjective:  Lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless
adjective:  Incapable of sexual intercourse, often because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection, having impotentia coeundi
adjective:  (of a male) Sterile
adjective:  (obsolete) Lacking self-restraint
noun:  A man who has erectile dysfunction
noun:  An impotent or powerless person

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