• Superpowerless

    Full definition of superpowerless

    Adjective

    superpowerless

    1. In fiction, lacking a superpower; lacking the special attributes of a superhero or supervillain.
      • 2008, Shane Berryhill, Chance Fortune and the Outlaws:The idea of a practically unarmed, unshielded, and superpowerless human boy defeating what was probably the mightiest warrior of the day without any external aid is absolutely absurd.
      • 2001, William Bernhardt, Silent Justice, p. 43:The 1969 dispenser was of the short-lived superpowerless karate-chopping Wonder Woman written by the legendary Dennis O'Neil.
    2. Extremely powerless.
      • 2003, Henry Bayman, The Secret of Islam: Love and Law in the Religion of Ethics, p. lvi:Though nihilism may not be invincible, superpowers are superpowerless against it.
      • 2002, Glenn Kenny, A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists on Twenty-Five Years of Star Wars, p. 40:If Boba Fett serves as a lightning rod for anything more significant than admiration of his arresting costume and four gritty lines of dialogue, perhaps it is as the embodiment of our third-wave, superpowerless anxiety, which long predates the events of September 11, 2001.
      • 1984, George Thomas Kurian, The New Book of World Rankings, p. xviii:Yet the balance of power (or terror) is so evenly matched that the superpowers are superpowerless to use their awesome might in any situation short of an actual enemy attack.
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