nerveless

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: nerve=less

CIDE DICTIONARY

nerveless, a. 

•  Destitute of nerves.  [1913 Webster]
•  Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless.  [1913 Webster]

  "A kingless people for a nerveless state."  [1913 Webster]

  "Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nerveless, adj.
1 inert, lacking vigour or spirit.
2 confident; not nervous.
3 (of style) diffuse.
4 Bot. & Entomol. without nervures.
5 Anat. & Zool. without nerves.

Derivative

nervelessly adv. nervelessness n.

THESAURUS

nerveless

anemic, asthenic, bloodless, calm, castrated, chicken, coolheaded, cowardly, debilitated, demasculinized, devitalized, drooping, droopy, dull, effeminized, effete, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, etiolated, eunuchized, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gelded, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent, inexcitable, languid, languorous, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, pithless, pooped, powerless, relaxed, rock-steady, rubbery, sapless, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, steady, steady-handed, steady-nerved, steel-nerved, strengthless, strong-nerved, unblenching, unblinking, unfaltering, unflinching, unhardened, unmanned, unnerved, unnervous, unquivering, unsexed, unshaken, unshaky, unshrinking, unstrained, unstrung, untremulous, unwavering, weak, weakly, without a tremor

ROGET THESAURUS

nerveless

Impotence

N impotence, inability, disability, disablement, impuissance, imbecility, incapacity, incapability, inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity, indocility, invalidity, disqualification, inefficiency, wastefulness, telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy, paper tiger, Quaker gun, inefficacy, failure, helplessness, prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition, emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy, cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle, eunuch, powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, ineffective, inept, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, disqualified, unendowed, inapt, unapt, crippled, disabled, armless, harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable, paralytic, paralyzed, palsied, imbecile, nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless, emasculate, disjointed, out of joint, out of gear, unnerved, unhinged, water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless, laid on one's back, done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized, graveled, helpless, unfriended, fatherless, without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf, null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing, ineffectual, inadequate, inefficacious, der kranke Mann, desirous still but impotent to rise, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.