Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
lacking power;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Powerless \Pow"er*less\, a.
Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not
able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. --
Pow"er*less*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
powerless
adj 1: lacking power [ant: powerful]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "powerless":
anemic, asthenic, bloodless, chicken, cowardly, crippled,
debilitated, decrepit, disabled, drooping, droopy, dull, effete,
etiolated, faint, faintish, featherweight, feeble, flabby, flaccid,
floppy, forceless, gone, gutless, helpless, imbecile, impotent,
inactive, incapable, incapacitated, incompetent, ineffective,
ineffectual, inefficacious, inert, infirm, languid, languorous,
lightweight, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless,
nerveless, no-account, of no account, passive, pithless, pooped,
rubbery, sapless, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, strengthless,
supine, unable, unauthoritative, unfit, unhardened, unnerved,
unstrung, weak, weakly, without any weight