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Webster 1913 Edition
Helpless
Help′less
,Adj.
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.]
– Help′less-ly
, adv.
Help′less-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Helpless
HELP'LESS
,Adj.
An infant is helpless.
1.
Destitute of support or assistance. How shall I then your helpless fame defend?
2.
Admitting no help; irremediable. [Not used.]3.
Unsupplied; destitute. Helpless of all that human wants require. [Not used.]
Definition 2024
helpless
helpless
English
Adjective
helpless (comparative more helpless, superlative most helpless)
- Unable to defend oneself.
- 1995, Bryan Adams, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?
- Then when you find yourself lyin' helpless in her arms
- You know you really love a woman
- 1995, Bryan Adams, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?
- Unable to act without help.
- Uncontrollable.
- a helpless urge
- (obsolete) From which there is no possibility of being saved.
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes,
They on the rock are rent and sunck in helplesse wawes.
- For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes,
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
Translations
unable to defend oneself
unable to act without help
uncontrollable — see uncontrollable