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# powerless

«powerless» in Mova's school dictionary: **Without the power or strength to do something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (powerless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Without the power or strength to do something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powerless/#m1)

2) Unable to help or act. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powerless/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, a character feels powerless; in history, powerless people had no vote; in science, a device is powerless without electricity.

### examples

- The people felt powerless against the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powerless/#x1)
- The radio was powerless without batteries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powerless/#x2)
- He was powerless to stop the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powerless/#x3)
- Toad was powerless in the dungeon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powerless/#x4)
- She felt powerless to help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powerless/#x5)
- Without votes, women were powerless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powerless/#x6)
- I am powerless to save them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powerless/#x7)

### note

From «power» + «-less».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «powerless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powerless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.