| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations |
| Section VIII. Causation |
| 2. Connection Between Cause and Effect |
| 158. Impotence. |
| NOUN: | IMPOTENCE; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance [rare], caducity, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude; indocility; invalidity, inefficiency, incompetence, disqualification. telum imbelle [L.], brutum fulmen [L.], blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et prœterea nihil [L.], dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; Quaker gun; cripple. INEFFICACY (inutility) [See Inutility]; failure [See Failure]. HELPLESSNESS &c. adj.; prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration [obs.], vincibility, vincibleness, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, senility, superannuation, atony, decrepitude, imbecility, neurasthenia, invertebracy, inanition; emasculation, orchotomy; eunuch. MOLLYCODDLE, old woman, muff [colloq.], tenderling [rare], milksop, molly [colloq.], sissy [colloq.], mother’s darling. |
| VERB: | BE IMPOTENT &c. adj.; not have a leg to stand on. vouloir rompre l’anguille au genou [F.], vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents [F.]. COLLAPSE, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board; end in smoke (fail) [See Failure]. RENDER POWERLESS &c. adj.; depotentiate [rare], deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, disinvigorate [rare], undermine, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, unsinew [rare], draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrote or garrotte, ratten [trade-union cant], silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat [F.], spike the guns; take the wind out of one’s sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one’s wheel; break the -neck, - back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear. UNMAN, unnerve, devitalize, effeminize, attenuate, enervate; emasculate, evirate [rare], spay, eunuchize [rare], caponize, castrate, geld, alter. SHATTER, exhaust; weaken [See Weakness]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | POWERLESS, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent; inefficient, ineffective; inept; unfit, unfitted; unqualified, disqualified; unendowed; doddering [colloq.], wambly [Scot. and dial. Eng.], inapt, unapt; crippled, disabled &c. v.; armless; senile, decrepit, superannuated. harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu [L.], unfortified, mightless [archaic], 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 [colloq.], done for [colloq.], done brown [colloq.], done [colloq.], dead-beat [colloq.], exhausted, shattered, atonic, demoralized; graveled [colloq.] &c. (in difficulty) [See Difficulty]; helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat [F.], laid on the shelf. NUGATORY, null and void, inoperative, good for nothing, invertebrate, ineffectual (failing) [See Failure]; inadequate [See Insufficiency]; inefficacious (useless) [See Inutility]. |
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