English-Italian translations for impotent

• impotente
  State scaricando le vostre responsabilità su un'altrettanto impotente Lega araba. You are passing off your responsibilities to an equally impotent Arab League.
  E' stato il fatto che l'Unione si trovava con la faccia al muro, il fatto che era, molto semplicemente, impotente. It was the fact that this Union was up against a brick wall; the fact that it was, quite simply, impotent.
• debole
  La conseguenza è stata che nei momenti di crisi internazionale l'UE si è dimostrata totalmente impotente, con una politica debole e inefficace o addirittura inesistente.The consequence has been that at times of international crisis the EU has been totally impotent. Either we had a weak, ineffectual policy or no policy at all.

Definition of impotent

• lacking physical strength or vigor; weak
• lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless
• incapable of sexual intercourse, often because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection
• lacking self-restraint
• a man who has erectile dysfunction
• an impotent or powerless person

Related words

• impotence
• impotently
• impotency
• male impotence