Usually means: Lacking ability, control, or influence.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word powerless:

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  1. powerless: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. powerless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. powerless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. powerless: Collins English Dictionary
  5. powerless: Vocabulary.com
  6. Powerless, powerless: Wordnik
  7. powerless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. powerless: Wiktionary
  9. powerless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. powerless: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. powerless: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Powerless, powerless: Dictionary.com
  13. powerless: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Powerless (Heroes), Powerless (Linkin Park song), Powerless (Rudimental song), Powerless (Say What You Want), Powerless (TV series), Powerless (comics), Powerless: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Powerless: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. powerless: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. powerless: Rhymezone
  18. powerless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. powerless: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. powerless: Free Dictionary
  21. powerless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. powerless: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Powerless (Say What You Want), powerless: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. powerless: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lacking sufficient power or strength.
adjective:  Lacking legal authority.
adjective:  Without electricity or electrical power.

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