Definitions for: Helpless


[adj] unable to manage independently; "as helpless as a baby"
[adj] unable to function; without help
[adj] lacking in or deprived of strength or power; "lying ill and helpless"; "helpless with laughter"



Webster (1913) Definition: Help"less, a.
1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend
one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless
infant.

How shall I then your helpless fame defend? --Pope.

2. Beyond help; irremediable.

Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of
mind or body. --Milton.

3. Bringing no help; unaiding. [Obs.]

Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of
my plagues. --Chapman.

4. Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of. [R.]

Helpless of all that human wants require. --Dryden.
-- Help"less*ly, adv. -- Help"less*ness, n.

Synonyms: dependent, hopeless, incapacitated, lost, powerless, weak

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