impuissant

1. 1.

   lacking physical strength or vigor

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Questions about impuissant

What does impuissant mean?

impuissant means "lacking physical strength or vigor".

How many syllables are in impuissant?

impuissant has 4 syllables and divides as im-pu-is-sant 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.

Is impuissant a common word?

impuissant 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.