What is another word for impotently?

Pronunciation: [ˈɪmpətəntli] (IPA)

Impotently is an adverb that describes a powerless or ineffective action or state. In situations where this word might be too intense or negative, there are various synonyms that can be used instead. Ineffective, futile, fruitless, unproductively, and without result can all be utilized to mean the same lack of ability to change or have an impact. Pointlessly, unsuccessfully, unavailingly, and ineffectively can also work. Some softer synonyms include weakly or helplessly, which convey the same sense of powerlessness without the harsh connotation of impotence. Ultimately, choosing the right synonym depends on the context and the desired degree of intensity or negativity conveyed.

What are the hypernyms for Impotently?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for impotently?

Impotently refers to the inability or lack of power to influence or achieve anything. Antonyms for impotently include effectively, powerfully, successfully, efficiently, influentially, strongly, capably, potently, and productively. These words imply that one has the ability to achieve a specific goal or outcome with precision and strength. For instance, effectively means capable of producing the desired outcome, efficiently implies achieving goals without wasting resources, and influentially denotes having the power to influence others positively. In contrast, impotently suggests lack of strength, power or ability to achieve a desired goal or make an impact. Overall, these antonyms demonstrate the opposite of the perceived weakness and lack of influence associated with impotently.

Usage examples for Impotently

And with a realization of his helplessness he again flung himself impotently upon the saddle-cloth.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
He stood in the stirrups and shook his fists impotently.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
And Roy, shivering and chattering, stood there in a scant three feet of icy water and impotently shook his fist in the darkness!
"The Crimson Sweater"
Ralph Henry Barbour

Famous quotes with Impotently

  • And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help for It As impotently moves as you or I.
    Omar Khayym
  • And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.
    Omar Khayyám
  • But she [Virginia Woolf] is impotently distant from an understanding of the proper relations between literature and society, because she has no clear sense of the functions of literature. She sees writers as individual 'artists' working in mysterious privacy - which from time to time society rudely invades. Her writer, indeed, has all the characteristics of traditional 'femininity' - with society as the big strong male who should protect and cherish his literary womenfolk, but does not. She might - for all the application of her complaint to the relations between society and literature - be talking of the relations between husbands and wives.
    Laura Riding
  • Ignobly vain, and impotently great.
    Alexander Pope
  • But I liken common languid Times, with their unbelief, distress, perplexity, with their languid doubting characters and embarrassed circumstances, impotently crumbling down into ever worse distress towards final ruin;—all this I liken to dry dead fuel, waiting for the lightning out of Heaven that shall kindle it. The great man, with his free force direct out of God's own hand, is the lightning. His word is the wise healing word which all can believe in. All blazes round him now, when he has once struck on it, into fire like his own.
    Thomas Carlyle

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