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powerless

/pou-er-lis/US // ˈpaʊ ər lɪs //UK // (ˈpaʊəlɪs) //

无能为力,无力,无权,无权无势

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
    • : lacking power to act; helpless: His legs crumpled, and he was powerless to rise.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.weak; unable
Synonyms
defenseless无防备,无防备的,无防卫,无防御能力disenfranchised被剥夺权利的,被剥夺权利的人,被剥夺了权利的人,被剥夺了权利的helpless无能为力,无助的,束手无策,无能为力的impotent无能为力,无能,无能的人,无能的incapable无能的,无能,无能力的,无能力ineffective无效的,无效,不起作用的,不起作用ineffectual不有效,不有效的,无效果,不有效用inert惰性,惰性的,惰性气体,懒惰paralyzed瘫痪,瘫痪的,瘫痪了,瘫痪状态passive被动的,被动,被动式,被动型vulnerable脆弱的,脆弱,弱势,易受伤害blank空白,白纸黑字,空白的,白纸chicken鸡肉,鸡类,鸡只,鸡debilitated衰弱的,衰弱,虚弱的,衰弱的人dependent依赖的,依赖性,依赖性的,依靠的disabled残疾人,残疾,残障人士,残缺的etiolated枯萎的,蜕变,蜕变的,蜕皮的feeble软弱无力,衰弱,弱小,软弱frail羸弱的,脆弱的,体弱的,体弱gutless胆小怕事,胆小如鼠,无胆,胆小的incapacitated无能力的,丧失能力的,无能力的人,丧失能力infirm老弱病残,老弱,体弱的,体弱out of gas没油了,没气了,没汽油了,没气prostrate匍匐前进,平卧,匍匐前行,匍匐subject主题,课题,题目,题材supine仰卧,仰卧位,仰卧起坐,仰卧式tied并列的,捆绑的,并列,捆绑unarmed非武装,非武装的,徒手,非武装人员unfit不合适的,不合适,不适当的,不适合wimp窝囊废,懦夫,懦弱,怂恿wishy-washy虚虚实实,虚虚实实的,踌躇满志,踌躇不前

Examples

  • That left the agency powerless to stop states from filling in the vacuum with their own legislation.

  • In its wake, I let dozens of texts go unanswered, powerless to send a “Hey, catch up later,” but too drained to have a conversation.

  • Living in your powerless homeNow it’s time to think about what life will look like in your survival space.

  • They had to rely on Salsman to be their advocate, to represent them at a time they felt powerless, and instead they were preyed upon.

  • My silence, I realized, was due in part to my sense that I was powerless.

  • He had been scared and powerless to protect himself, and Moscow had been silent.

  • While quarantined, she was seemingly powerless to challenge her banishment to a tent in Newark.

  • Unable to make it to a hospital, or too afraid, parents are dying at home alongside kids who are powerless to save them.

  • But the malpractice system is not robust in China, and patients feel powerless.

  • Hanifa and her father and mother and brother spent 10 days on the mountain, fearing for the girls, but powerless to help them.

  • As men fixed in the grip of nightmare, we were powerless—unable to do anything but wait.

  • But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.

  • The new forces controlled by mankind have been powerless as yet to remove want and destitution, hard work and social discontent.

  • The man who allows himself to be crucified is no true saviour, because by allowing it he renders himself powerless to save.

  • Now they were fugitive and nearly powerless, and I knew the Zervs were few in number from my own observation.