• stultify - deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
• sessile - permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
• insuperable - impossible to surmount; insurmountable
• quixotic - not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
• capricious - determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; impulsive; whimsical
• malevolent - having or exerting a malignant influence
• antipathy - a feeling of intense dislike
• indissoluble - incapable of being dissolved (in a solution)
• inexpert - lack of professional skill or expertise

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov

Short story: That Thou Art Mindful of Him