IMPUISSANT

  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

IMPUISSANT

Definition: IMPUISSANT

IMPUISSANT

Adjective

1. Weak; impotent; feeble.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Impuissant \Im*pu"is*sant\, adjective. [French expression, from prefix im- not puissant. See Puissant.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: IMPUISSANT

Non-English Usage: "IMPUISSANT" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (helpless, incompetent, powerless, toothless, unable).

Top     

Modern Translations: IMPUISSANT

Language Translations for "IMPUISSANT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

impotente (helpless, impotent, powerless). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

impuissantay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

neputincios (helpless, impotent, incapable, infirm, limp, nerveless, palsied, shiftless, silly, slight). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svag (faint, feckless, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, gone, infirm, insubstantial, lame, light, low, mild, milk and water, off, reckling, rickety, shaky, shallow, small, subtle, tenuous, unsound, weak, weak-kneed, weakly), maktlös (forceless, impotent, incapable, ineffectual, powerless), kraftlös (effete, enervated, feeble, forceless, impotent, ineffectual, limp, milky, pithless, powerless, week). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

yếu ớt (effeminate, faintly, slack, soft, weakly, womanish), bất lực (impotent, incapably). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Rhyming with "IMPUISSANT"

Words rhyming with "IMPUISSANT" (pronounced 'Im*pu"is*sant'): Cessant, Complaisant, Connusant, Conusant, Counterpassant, Disobeisant, Incensant, incessant, Inconversant, Jessant, Malacissant, Multiversant, Naissant, Obeisant, Passant, Persant, Practisant, Puissant, Ravissant, Recursant, Renaissant, Repassant, Suffisant, Uncessant. (additional references)

Top     

Anagrams: IMPUISSANT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-m-n-p-s-s-t-u"

-1 letter: mispaints.

-2 letters: animists, impaints, mispaint, pianisms, pianists, puissant, sinapism, tsunamis.

-3 letters: animist, autisms, impaint, intimas, isatins, issuant, manitus, minutia, missuit, pianism, pianist, pissant, pitmans, ptisans, saimins, santimi, santims, simians, sustain, timpani, tsunami.

-4 letters: animis, animus, autism, inputs, insist, intima, isatin, maists, manitu, mantis, matins, paints, passim, pastis, patins, pintas, pitman, ptisan, saimin, saints, satins, simian, situps, spaits, stains, stamps, stumps, stupas, suints.

-5 letters: amins, amiss, animi, antis, apsis, aspis, aunts, impis, inapt, input, intis, mains, maist, manus, masts, matin, mauts, minas, minis, mints, minus, mists, mitis, munis, musts, nipas, nisus, pains, paint, pants, pasts, patin, pians, pimas, pinas, pinta, pints, pitas, pumas, punas, punts, sains, saint, samps, sasin, satin, satis, simas, simps, sinus, situp, situs, smuts, snaps, snips, snits, spait, spams, spans, spasm, spats, spins, spits, sputa, stain, stamp, stump, stums, stuns, stupa, suint, suits, sumps, tains, tamis, tamps, tapis, tipis, tumps, tunas, unais, unapt, units.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-i-m-n-p-s-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: puritanisms, utopianisms.

 

+3 letters: misassumption.

 

+4 letters: misassumptions.

 

+5 letters: micropulsations, miscomputations, poststimulation, pusillanimities, superhumanities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: IMPUISSANT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4D 50 55 49 53 53 41 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    --    .--.    ..-    ..    ...    ...    .-    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001101 01010000 01010101 01001001 01010011 01010011 01000001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#77 &#80 &#85 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#65 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004D 0050 0055 0049 0053 0053 0041 004E 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43475055435353354854

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.