powerless
powerless
adj.
Unable: P. and V. ἀ̆δύ̆νᾰτος.
Weak: P. and V. ἀσθενής, ἀ̆δύνᾰτος, V. ἄ̆ναλκις.
You will become absolutely powerless to control the state: P. παντάπασιν ἄκυροι πάντων ὑμεῖς γενήσεσθε (Dem. 342).
adj.
Unable: P. and V. ἀ̆δύ̆νᾰτος.
Weak: P. and V. ἀσθενής, ἀ̆δύνᾰτος, V. ἄ̆ναλκις.
You will become absolutely powerless to control the state: P. παντάπασιν ἄκυροι πάντων ὑμεῖς γενήσεσθε (Dem. 342).
POWERLESS
invalidus (not strong ineffectual inefficacious; opposed to fortis and valens): imbecillus (weak; of persons; especially of invalids and old persons: then also of food drink etc.; opposed to firmus fortis and valens: ☞ imbecillus is a late form): infirmus (without firmness and strength; opposed to firmus): debilis (crippled): iners (without energy life or motion; of persons and of things): exsanguis (lifeless): enervatus (unnerved exhausted PROP. of persons; with velut prefixed also of ihe state): jejunus (poor dry; of land style of a speech and the speaker): languidus (feeble): irritus (invalid; opposed to ratus). To be powerless invalidum etc. esse; deficiunt mihi vires (strength fails me): to make or render powerless vires or nervos or vires et robur frangere nervos incidere debilitare (to weaken): irritum reddere (to invalidate): to become powerless vires amittere.
invalidus (not strong ineffectual inefficacious; opposed to fortis and valens): imbecillus (weak; of persons; especially of invalids and old persons: then also of food drink etc.; opposed to firmus fortis and valens: ☞ imbecillus is a late form): infirmus (without firmness and strength; opposed to firmus): debilis (crippled): iners (without energy life or motion; of persons and of things): exsanguis (lifeless): enervatus (unnerved exhausted PROP. of persons; with velut prefixed also of ihe state): jejunus (poor dry; of land style of a speech and the speaker): languidus (feeble): irritus (invalid; opposed to ratus). To be powerless invalidum etc. esse; deficiunt mihi vires (strength fails me): to make or render powerless vires or nervos or vires et robur frangere nervos incidere debilitare (to weaken): irritum reddere (to invalidate): to become powerless vires amittere.
powerless:
1. invălĭdus: p. and defenceless, inv. et inermis, Tac. A. 1, 46: fortifications p. against an attack, moenia adversus irrumpentes inv., ib. 12, 16: v.WEAK , FEEBLE .
2. impŏtens (rare in this sense): Hor. Od. 2, 1, 26. Sometimes vanus, irritus may serve: cf. Hor. Od. 3, 24, 35, quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt (laws powerless without virtue): a p. remedy, irritum remedium, Tac. H. 4, 81: v.VAIN , FRUITLESS . To be p., nihil valere, Cic. Verr. 3, 62, 146: so, minimum valere, id. Fam. 1, 9, 4; parum v., Matius in Cic. Fam. 11, 28: so, nihil, minimum, parum, posse: v. POWER (III., fin.). See also INEFFECTUAL .
1. invălĭdus: p. and defenceless, inv. et inermis, Tac. A. 1, 46: fortifications p. against an attack, moenia adversus irrumpentes inv., ib. 12, 16: v.
2. impŏtens (rare in this sense): Hor. Od. 2, 1, 26. Sometimes vanus, irritus may serve: cf. Hor. Od. 3, 24, 35, quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt (laws powerless without virtue): a p. remedy, irritum remedium, Tac. H. 4, 81: v.