| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Lacking physical strength or vigor.[Wordnet]
2. Weak; impotent; feeble.[Websters] 3. Being nerveless, powerless, weak, impotent or feeble. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being inefficient, ineffective, incapable, incompetent or inefficacious. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being infirm or invalid. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being helpless, faint, effete, dim or washy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being frail or fragile. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb impuissantly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (impuissantly) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective impuissant.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "IMPUISSANT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
| Etymology:Impuissant \Im*pu"is*sant\, adjective. [French expression, from prefix im- not puissant. See Puissant.]. (references) |
