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impowered

impowered is the obsolete spelling of empowered.

impowered is the simple past and past participle of impower.

Meaning of empowered

Adjective

empowered (comparative more empowered, superlative most empowered)

  1. Having been given powers.
    • Empowered staff deliver the goods and exceed your expectations. Disempowered staff develop a 'sullen obedience' where they stop driving new initiatives and just await orders.2024 January 10, Chris Green, “Empowered...energised... and managing for success”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 22
  2. (US) Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation.
    • Policy moderation in the past, I argued above, has depended on a coalition between civic elites and newly empowered minorities—or at least a resolve by civic elites to discourage a racially polarizing politics of law and order.1995, Chicago Assembly, Lawrence B. Joseph, Crime, Communities, and Public Policy, page 288
  3. (US) Acting with confidence.

See all 4 meanings of empowered

Forms of impowered

comparativemore impowered
superlativemost impowered

Words formed from impowered

Questions about impowered

What is impowered the obsolete spelling of?
Impowered is the obsolete spelling of empowered.

Words near impowered in the dictionary

  1. impoverishing
  2. impoverishment
  3. impoverishments
  4. impoverisht
  5. impower
  6. impowered
  7. impowering
  8. impowers
  9. impowre
  10. impowres
  11. impowring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: impowered (page history and authors); empowered (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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