Usually means: Lacking ability, control, or influence.
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  1. powerless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. powerless: Merriam-Webster
  3. powerless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. powerless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. powerless: Collins English Dictionary
  6. powerless: Vocabulary.com
  7. Powerless, powerless: Wordnik
  8. powerless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. powerless: Wiktionary
  10. powerless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. powerless: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. powerless: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Powerless, powerless: Dictionary.com
  14. powerless: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Powerless (Heroes), Powerless (Linkin Park song), Powerless (Rudimental song), Powerless (Say What You Want), Powerless (TV series), Powerless (comics), Powerless: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Powerless: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. powerless: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. powerless: Rhymezone
  19. powerless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. powerless: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. powerless: FreeDictionary.org
  22. powerless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. powerless: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Powerless (Say What You Want), powerless: Legal dictionary

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  1. powerless: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (powerless)

▸ adjective:  Lacking sufficient power or strength.
▸ adjective:  Lacking legal authority.
▸ adjective:  Without electricity or electrical power.

Similar:
nerveless, weak, helpless, feeble, overpowered, swamped, overcome, flooded, inundated, incapacitated, more...

Opposite:
powerful, strong, capable, influential

Phrases:
The Power of the Powerless, The Powerless Rise, make ineffective or powerless, render powerless, feeling powerless, more...

Adjectives:
nigh, powerful, much, individual, present, latter, first, poor, last, whole, left

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Similar:
nerveless, weak, helpless, feeble, overpowered, swamped, overcome, flooded, inundated, incapacitated, more...

Opposite:
powerful, strong, capable, influential

Phrases:
The Power of the Powerless, The Powerless Rise, make ineffective or powerless, render powerless, feeling powerless, powerless and unable to function, powerless weak, made powerless, make powerless, more...

Adjectives:
nigh, powerful, much, individual, present, latter, first, poor, last, whole, left

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     pale blue,     light gray,     taupe, more...



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