Human beings are powerless before nature.
Source: tatoeba (270289)
Powerless
//ˈpaʊɚləs//
Synonyms for "powerless" (85 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (26)
Related words (42)
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Antonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
14 entriesTranslations
80 translations across 32 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἀδύνατος adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- ἀκρατής adj (lacking legal authority)
Arabic
2 entries- ضَعِيف adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- عَاجِز adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Belarusian
4 entries- бездапамо́жны adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- бязула́дны adj (lacking legal authority)
- бяспо́мачны adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- бяссі́льны adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Bulgarian
4 entries- безпо́мощен adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- безси́лен adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- не́мощен adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- невали́ден adj (lacking legal authority)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 無力的 /无力的 adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Czech
1 entries- bezmocný adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Dutch
2 entries- machteloos adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- machteloos adj (lacking legal authority)
Esperanto
1 entries- senpova adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Finnish
3 entries- heikko adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- voimaton adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- voimaton adj (lacking legal authority)
French
1 entries- impuissant adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Georgian
2 entries- უძალაუფლებო adj (lacking legal authority)
- უძლური adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
German
2 entries- kraftlos adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- machtlos adj (lacking legal authority)
Hungarian
4 entries- erőtlen adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- gyenge adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- tehetetlen adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- tehetetlen adj (lacking legal authority)
Interlingua
1 entries- impotente adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Italian
1 entries- impotente adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Japanese
3 entries- 弱い adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- 無力な adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- 脆い adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Kazakh
2 entries- дәрменсіз adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- әлсіз adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Korean
1 entries- 무력하다 adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Latin
4 entries- impotens adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- impotens adj (lacking legal authority)
- nequiens adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- nequiens adj (lacking legal authority)
Macedonian
1 entries- немоќен adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Manx
1 entries- neuphooaral adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Māori
4 entries- hangenge adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- kahakore adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- manakore adj (lacking legal authority)
- mohemohe adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Norwegian
2 entries- maktesløs adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- maktesløs adj (lacking legal authority)
Polish
1 entries- bezsilny adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Portuguese
1 entries- impotente adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Russian
4 entries- безвла́стный adj (lacking legal authority)
- беспо́мощный adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- бесси́льный adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- не́мощный adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bȅspomoćan adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- nȅmoćan adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- nȅpravomoćan adj (lacking legal authority)
- obesnažen adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Slovak
1 entries- bezmocný adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Slovene
1 entries- nemočen adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Spanish
1 entries- impotente adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Tocharian B
1 entries- avaṣi adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Ukrainian
4 entries- безвла́дний adj (lacking legal authority)
- безпо́мічний adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- безси́лий adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
- не́мічний adj (lacking sufficient power or strength)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
She's weak, powerless. A mere human.
Source: tatoeba (327773)
The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.
Source: tatoeba (704834)
The president appeared powerless.
Source: tatoeba (807160)
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