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helpless
- 3 dictionary resultshelp⋅less
[help-lis] 
lɪs
–adjective
| 1. | unable to help oneself; weak or dependent: a helpless invalid. |
| 2. | deprived of strength or power; powerless; incapacitated: They were helpless with laughter. |
| 3. | affording no help. |
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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. 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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Language Translation for : helpless
Spanish:
desamparado; indefenso, desvalido,
German:
hilflos,
Japanese:
無力な
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