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Superpower vs Superpowerless - What's the difference?

superpower | superpowerless |

As a noun superpower

is (lb) electricity generated in a large plant that is tied into a regional network, on a larger scale than was common in the early years of commercial electricity production.

As an adjective superpowerless is

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

superpower

English

Noun

(wikipedia superpower) (en noun)
  • (lb) Electricity generated in a large plant that is tied into a regional network, on a larger scale than was common in the early years of commercial electricity production.
  • Excessive or superior power.
  • A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the Soviet Union or United States.
  • A fictional extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.

    • superpowerless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
  • 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.