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ness, feebleness, frailty, infirmity, impuissance; exhaustion, enfeeblement, prostration, demoralization; enervation, debilitation, disablement; decrepitude, senility, senescence, valetudinarianism, superannuation.
2. ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, inadequacy, inefficiency, incompetence, ineptness; uselessness, inutility, worthlessness, valuelessness, meritless-ness, nugacity; futility, bootlessness, unavailingness, idleness; unprofitableness, profitlessness, nonsuccess, failure, defeat.
3. sterility, infertility, childlessness, unprolificness, infecundity, Med. agenesis, effeteness.
impotent, adj. 1. powerless, helpless, weak, feeble, frail, infirm, impuissant; exhausted, worn out, enfeebled, spent, all in, done for; prostrate, shattered, demoralized; enervated, nerveless, debilitated; disabled, decrepit, crippled, paralytic, palsied; senile, senescent, valetudinary, superannuated.
2. ineffective, ineffectual, inefficient, incompetent, inadequate, inept, inoperative; worthless, valueless, meritless, nugatory; futile, vain, idle, bootless, useless, unavailing; unproductive, unyielding, unprofitable, profitless, gainless, unrenumerative, unpaying; unsuccessful, to no avail, to no purpose, for naught.
3. barren, sterile, Bot. acarpous, unprolific, infe-cund, infertile, Med. agenetic, abortive, effete, unfruitful, fruitless.
impound, v. 1. (all usu. of animals) pen, pen in, shut up, cage, encage, coop up, rail, fence in; tie up, secure.
2. confine, enclose, contain, hold in, check, bound, limit; shut in, imprison, incarcerate, immure, wall up, hem in.
3. appropriate, take possession of, seize, commandeer, expropriate, claim, Scot. poind, Law. distrain; avail oneself of, make free with, help oneself to.
impoverish, v. 1. reduce to poverty, pauperize, beggar; ruin, Dial, ruinate, break, bankrupt, destroy financially.
2. exhaust, use up, deplete, drain, sap, take all one's strength; wear out, tire out, fatigue, Inf. do in, SI. do a number on, SI. waste; weaken, enervate, enfeeble.
impoverished, adj. 1. poverty-stricken, destitute, penurious, impecunious, beggared, pauperized; indigent, poor, needy, necessitous, bad off, badly off, SI. in rough or tough shape; pinched, straitened, distressed, in a bad way, Inf. strapped, tight, in a bind, Inf. up against it, Inf on one's uppers, Inf. hard up; financially embarrassed, out of cash, Inf. short, Brit. SI. skint, All Inf. broke, dead broke, flat broke, stone broke; bankrupt, ruined, wiped out, Inf. on the rocks, insolvent, overdrawn, in the red; down and out, out at the elbows, down at the heels, seedy.
2. exhausted, depleted, drained, used up, worn out, spent, played out; weakened, weak, feeble.
3. (all of a country or region) barren, stripped, deprived, poor, meager, scanty, scarce, lean; bare, dry, arid, bald, naked; dead, waste, desolate, empty, forlorn.
impracticability, n. impracticableness, infeasibility, impossibility, infeasibleness, hopelessness; uselessness, inutility, inefficaciousness, inoperativeness, impracti-cality, ineffectiveness, unserviceableness.
impracticable, adj. 1. unfeasible, impossible, unachievable, unattainable, unobtainable, out of the question.
2. unsuitable, useless, inutile, inefficacious, ineffective, inoperative, unserviceable, impractical.
impractical, adj. useless, inutile, inefficacious, ineffective, inoperative, unserviceable; theoretical, abstract, speculative; quixotic, chimerical, visionary, romantic, ideal; starry-eyed, wild, absurd, crackpot.
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