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Definition of Powerless
Powerless

Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.

Related Definitions:
Able, Any, Destitute, Effect, Energy, Force, Impotent, Not, Of, Or, Power, Produce, To, Weak


Powerless Quotations

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
William Thomas Stead

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Blaise Pascal

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

Powerless Translations

powerless in French is impuissant
powerless in German is machtlos, machtlosen, kraftlos
powerless in Hungarian is tehetetlen
powerless in Italian is impotente
powerless in Spanish is impotente


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