Able and Impotent

Able

Able adjective - Having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance.

Impotent is an antonym for able in able to perform well topic.

Nearby Word: ability

Impotent

Impotent adjective - Unable to act or achieve one's purpose.
Usage example: an impotent ruler who was just a figurehead

Able is an antonym for impotent in topics: powerless, disabled.

Nearby Word: impotence

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Marvel: Avengers Alliance Mission Control is impotent, Professor X's psychic communications are limited or blocked, and the game takes pains to establish that no one — not even Kitty Pryde, Doctor Strange, or the Asgardians — was able to escape Murderworld.
  • Beware the Silly Ones All of them are also incredibly dangerous, ranging from Kazue being able to prepare poisons that kill you in five minutes or make you impotent to Ryo being a One-Man Army who can use a revolver to put six bullets in the same hole at fifteen meters and a rifle to shoot a belt from one kilometer away.
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