helpless
Use Helpless in a sentence
lɪs
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helpless (ˈhɛlplɪs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | unable to manage independently |
| 2. | made powerless or weak: they were helpless from so much giggling |
| 3. | without help |
| 'helplessly | |
| —adv | |
| 'helplessness | |
| —n | |
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Helpless
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example sentences
They make you more vulnerable to stressors in the environment, to deciding that you are helpless even when you're not.
The restrictions will however leave us more vulnerable and helpless in the face of these monsters.
And you think of how helpless they are as eggs and pupae, when they are stuck in place, unable to take evasive action.
The stellar cannibal flared in brightness and threw off a shell of gas after devouring a large chunk of a helpless companion.
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