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Superlative for unable to bear fruit, crops or offspring
“Once a crop had failed, the farmers abandoned the impotent land, moving their families and livestock a few miles away to clearcut more jungle and try all over again.”
Superlative for physically unresponsive to amorous cues
“It's a fact that too much depression may make you impotent in the sack.”
Superlative for being prevented from achieving one's aims or goals
“Excessive levels of debt will leave a company impotent in a competitive marketplace.”
Superlative for not producing a desired or effective result
“The county was undergoing an overwhelmingly expensive and ultimately impotent project in mass transportation.”
Superlative for lacking the power or ability to act effectively
“I do not want an impotent President conducting foreign policy in this country.”
Superlative for weak or lacking the strength to be effective
“The peasant of today, resigned and impotent in the face of death, has turned fatalistic.”
(obsolete) Superlative for lacking self-restraint or control
“Then, impotent of tongue, her silence broke. Thus turbulent in rattling tone she spoke.”
(colloquial) Superlative for timid, or showing a lack of courage
Superlative for lacking physical strength, especially due to illness or age
Superlative for lacking strength of character to follow one's own principles
(of a faculty or part of the body) Superlative for reduced in quality or efficacy
Superlative for completely overcome or helpless, especially with distress or exhaustion
Superlative for abstaining from extramarital, or from all, amorous relations
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