impotently

1. 1.

   in a helpless manner

   “the crowd watched him helplessly”

   Synonymshelplessly

Questions about impotently

What does impotently mean?

impotently means "in a helpless manner".

How many syllables are in impotently?

impotently has 4 syllables and divides as im-po-tent-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for impotently?

Close synonyms include helplessly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is impotently a common word?

impotently is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.