HELPLESS

helpless. Helpless, a. wanting power or assistance, weak of help

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Help″less, a. 1. 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. 2. Beyond help; irremediable.
Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body. Milton. 3. 3. Bringing no help; unaiding.
Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues. Chapman. 4. 4. Unsupplied; destitute; — with of.
Helpless of all that human wants require. Dryden. — Help″less‐ly, adv. — Help″less‐ness, n.