Synonyms for powerless
ˈpaʊ ər lɪspow·er·less

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1. powerless

   Synonyms:
   contemptible, despicable, feeble, harmless, helpless, weak

   Antonyms:
   dangerous, formidable, redoubted, terrible, tremendous

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1. powerlessadjective

   lacking power

   Antonyms:
   mighty, ruling, all-powerful, omnipotent, strong, puissant, muscular, almighty, coercive, compelling, powerful, reigning, regent(ip), potent, regnant

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1. unempowered

   a lack of: ability, capacity, authority.

   paul was made powerless by his boss's refusal to sign the letter of authorisation.

   Submitted by rinat on February 22, 2016  

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1. powerlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   impotent, weak

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1. List of paraphrases for "powerless":

   impotent, helpless, defenceless, powerlessness, incapable, unable, weak

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1. Josh Fryday:

   Climate is very real for California, the idea is we need our corps members focused on what's going to make a meaningful impact around climate change, what's going to reduce greenhouse emissions. People want to feel they're not powerless in a situation.

2. Hammurabi:

   The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

3. Mark Parkinson:

   Our worst fears have come true as Covid runs rampant among the general population, and long term care facilities are powerless to fully prevent it from entering due to its asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic spread.

4. Carly Fiorina:

   Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is right : crony capitalism is alive and well, government and government programs have grown so big, so powerful, so costly and so complex that only the big and the powerful can prosper. But Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is dead wrong about how to end crony capitalism. You see, whether it is Dodd-Frank, Obamacare or net neutrality, all this government complexity means the big get bigger, the small disappear, and the powerless are trapped.

5. Erin Thompson:

   This sends a very important propaganda message for ISIS, they are using, essentially, the media to convey to potential recruits this idea that the West is powerless to defend against ISIS' destruction of things that are so important to us.