English-French translations for powerless

• impuissant
  Pourtant, nous ne sommes pas impuissants dans ce cas. And yet we are not powerless in this matter.
  Nous ne pouvons abandonner les peuples impuissants à leur sort. We should not leave the powerless to their fate.
  Tant que nous n'aurons que des mots à leur offrir, nous resterons impuissants. As long as we only have words to offer, we are powerless.

Definition of powerless

• Lacking sufficient power or strength
• Lacking legal authority

Examples

• I admit that I am powerless over my hatred towards white people in ways that I am unable to recognize fully, both at this time and in the past.
• The traffic warden was powerless to stop me driving away.

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