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high and dryadjective unable to act or achieve one's purposethe inadequate supplies of vaccine left many people high and dry when the flu season arrived hamstrung, handcuffed, helpless, hog-tied, impotent, impuissant, paralyzed, powerless, weak incapable, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inept, unfit, uselessfeeble, frail, infirm, passive, spineless, supine, unaggressive mighty, potent, powerful, puissant, strong able, capable, competent, effective, efficientauthoritarian, autocratic(also autocratical), despotic, dictatorial, magisterial, tyrannical(also tyrannic)dominant, dynamic, energetic, forceful, robust, sturdy, tough, vigorousimportant, major, significanthigh-level, senior, top in 1727 |