helpless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite lacking in or deprived of strength or power
    incapacitated.
    • lying ill and helpless
    • helpless with laughter
  2. adjective satellite unable to function; without help
    lost.
  3. adjective satellite unable to manage independently
    • as helpless as a baby

WordNet

Help"less adjective
Definitions
  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.

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