impuissant

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   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: im-pu-is-sant. The stress falls on "pu".

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.