'Helpless' definitions:
Definition of 'helpless'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking in or deprived of strength or power; "lying ill and helpless"; "helpless with laughter" [syn: helpless, incapacitated]
adjective
Unable to function; without help [syn: helpless, lost]
adjective
Unable to manage independently; "as helpless as a baby"
Definition of 'Helpless'
From: GCIDE
- Helpless \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. [1913 Webster]
- How shall I then your helpless fame defend? --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Beyond help; irremediable. [1913 Webster]
- Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Bringing no help; unaiding. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Helpless of all that human wants require. --Dryden. -- {Help"less*ly}, adv. -- {Help"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'helpless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- aidless,
- at sea,
- baffled,
- bare-handed,
- bewildered,
- blind,
- blind drunk,
- blotto,
- confounded,
- confused,
- crippled,
- debilitated,
- defenseless,
- dependent,
- deserted,
- desolate,
- disabled,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- exhausted,
- faint,
- fatherless,
- feeble,
- forlorn,
- forsaken,
- friendless,
- godforsaken,
- guardless,
- guideless,
- helpless,
- homeless,
- impotent,
- incapable,
- incompetent,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- infirm,
- kithless,
- lame,
- leaderless,
- motherless,
- muddled,
- mystified,
- nonplussed,
- out,
- out cold,
- outcast,
- overcome,
- paralyzed,
- passed out,
- perplexed,
- pregnable,
- prostrate,
- spent,
- stiff,
- stoned,
- unarmed,
- unarmored,
- unattended,
- unavailing,
- uncovered,
- undefended,
- under the table,
- unfit,
- unfortified,
- unfriended,
- ungarrisoned,
- unguarded,
- unprotected,
- unqualified,
- unscreened,
- unsheltered,
- unshielded,
- unsuspecting,
- untenable,
- unwarned,
- unwatched,
- useless,
- vulnerable,
- weak,
- weakened,
- weaponless,
- worn out,
- worthless