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superpowerless

superpowerless adjective: in fiction, lacking a superpower; lacking the special attributes of a superhero or supervillain.

Adjective

superpowerless (comparative more superpowerless, superlative most superpowerless)

  1. In fiction, lacking a superpower; lacking the special attributes of a superhero or supervillain.
    • 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.2008, Shane Berryhill, Chance Fortune and the Outlaws
    • The 1969 dispenser was of the short-lived superpowerless karate-chopping Wonder Woman written by the legendary Dennis O'Neil.2001, William Bernhardt, Silent Justice, page 43
  2. Extremely powerless.
    • Though nihilism may not be invincible, superpowers are superpowerless against it.2003, Henry Bayman, The Secret of Islam: Love and Law in the Religion of Ethics, page lvi
    • 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, 2001.2002, Glenn Kenny, A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists on Twenty-Five Years of Star Wars, page 40

Forms of superpowerless

comparativemore superpowerless
superlativemost superpowerless

Origin of superpowerless

From superpower + -less or super- + powerless.

Words formed from superpowerless

Questions about superpowerless

What does superpowerless mean?
Superpowerless means in fiction, lacking a superpower; lacking the special attributes of a superhero or supervillain.
What part of speech is superpowerless?
Superpowerless is an adjective.

Words near superpowerless in the dictionary

  1. superpowerdom
  2. superpowered
  3. superpowerful
  4. superpowerhood
  5. superpowering
  6. superpowerless
  7. superpowerlessness
  8. superpowers
  9. superpraise
  10. superpraised
  11. superpraises

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