Antonym: powerful. Similar words: peerless, power, empower, powerful, superpower, power cut, powerhouse, willpower. Meaning: ['paʊə(r)lɪs] adj. lacking power.
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31) I have felt powerless to do anything about it.
32) I was powerless to salve his guilt, but I felt my own.
33) But if she let fitzAlan carry her off and marry her she would be completely powerless against a man who despised her.
34) Parents typically use threats and spankings when they feel powerless and angry.
35) The Madiatma was a symbol of strength to a nation that felt powerless.
36) Citizens imprisoned for their political beliefs are powerless against the government.
37) Both the Senate and the administration seemed powerless to stem the tide of hysteria.
38) Demand is shaped by the suppliers themselves and ignorance makes consumers relatively powerless.
39) This is her idea for impressing on the audience how the powerless feel.
40) He knew that he was now powerless to influence the way they would vote.
41) Bismarck, who saw in Waldersee a serious rival, disliked this development, but was powerless to reverse it.
42) Going along as a small independent with just a few programmes to your name does render you relatively powerless.
43) After the death of Asbury, the Methodists in 1816 adopted a report that admitted they were powerless to abolish the evil.
44) The Government would be powerless, having denied itself the right of access to the ordinary courts in such an eventuality.
45) Then abruptly I am back in real time, bobbing up and down in the river, powerless against its current.
46) She made contact and heard an exclamation of pain and then her arms were pinioned behind her and she was powerless.
47) And now this desperate damage: the squat compactness unhinged, made powerless.
48) In their relationship to their government they think of themselves as neither powerless nor, what is more important, alone.
49) The people of Hungary were powerless against the tanks of the Red Army.
50) The non-official majority was able to reduce the power of civil servants but powerless to fill the ensuing void.
51) Only calamity and desolation awaited this continent[sentencedict.com], and he felt almost powerless against the evils.
52) It is the Cinderella service because it mainly deals with powerless people.
53) Since I felt powerless to stop it, I simply resigned myself to paying the entrance fee.
54) A person is not powerful or powerless, in general, but only in respect of particular people in specific situations.
55) The powerful surgeon in the operating theatre is powerless sitting in the dentists chair.
56) Powerless to command a halt to the action, Gleysteen and Wickham drafted a statement in the name of the U.
57) Ewing suggests that young killers often vent their rage on a smaller victim because they are powerless against their adult abusers.
58) We felt so helpless,[http://sentencedict.com/powerless.html] so powerless to right what to us was a terrible wrong.
59) In an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda he complained of disastrous government economic policies which he had been powerless to influence.
60) My tears spill out, I am powerless to stop them.
More similar words: peerless, power, empower, powerful, superpower, power cut, powerhouse, willpower, overpower, empowered, powerfully, solar power, empowerment, power broker, balance of power, power of attorney, odorless, fearless, humorless, colorless, more or less, lower, shower, cower, tower, bower, flower, glower, towering, follower.