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helpless
adjective
1 helpless
Lacking in or deprived of strength or power:
— Lying ill and helpless.
— Helpless with laughter.
synonym: incapacitated.
Roget 158:
powerless,
impotent,
unable,
incapable,
incompetent;
inefficient,
ineffective;
inept;
unfit,
unfitted;
unqualified,
disqualified;
unendowed;
inapt,
unapt;
crippled,
disabled
etc.
v.;
armless†.
harmless,
unarmed,
weaponless,
defenseless,
sine ictu [Lat.],
unfortified,
indefensible,
vincible,
pregnable,
untenable.
paralytic,
paralyzed;
palsied,
imbecile;
nerveless,
sinewless†,
marrowless†,
pithless†,
lustless†;
emasculate,
disjointed;
out of joint,
out of gear;
unnerved,
unhinged;
water-logged,
on one's beam ends,
rudderless;
laid on one's back;
done up,
dead beat,
exhausted,
shattered,
demoralized;
graveled
etc.
(in difficulty)
704;
helpless,
unfriended†,
fatherless;
without a leg to stand on,
hors de combat [Fr.],
laid on the shelf.
null and void,
nugatory,
inoperative,
good for nothing;
ineffectual
etc.
(failing)
732;
inadequate
etc.
640;
inefficacious
etc.
(useless)
645.
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Roget 665:
in danger
etc.
n.;
endangered
etc.
v.;
fraught with danger;
dangerous,
hazardous,
perilous,
parlous,
periculous†;
unsafe,
unprotected
etc.
(safe, protect)
etc.
664;
insecure.
untrustworthy;
built upon. sand,
on a sandy basis;
wildcat.
defenseless,
fenceless,
guardless†,
harborless;
unshielded;
vulnerable,
expugnable†,
exposed;
open to
etc.
(liable)
177.
aux abois [Fr.],
at bay;
on the wrong side of the wall,
on a lee shore,
on the rocks.
at stake,
in question;
precarious,
critical,
ticklish;
slippery,
slippy;
hanging by a thread
etc.
v.;
with a halter round one's neck;
between the hammer and the anvil,
between Scylla and Charybdis,
between a rock and a hard place,
between the devil and the deep blue sea,
between two fires;
on the edge of a precipice,
on the brink of a precipice,
on the verge of a precipice,
on the edge of a volcano;
in the lion's den,
on slippery ground,
under fire;
not out of the wood.
unwarned,
unadmonished,
unadvised,
unprepared
etc.
674;
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†.
tottering;
unstable,
unsteady;
shaky,
top-heavy,
tumbledown,
ramshackle,
crumbling,
waterlogged;
helpless,
guideless†;
in a bad way;
reduced to the last extremity,
at the last extremity;
trembling in the balance;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162.
threatening
etc.
909;
ominous,
illomened;
alarming
etc.
(fear)
860;
explosive.
adventurous
etc.
(rash)
863,
(bold)
861.
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2 helpless
Unable to function; without help.
synonym: lost.
3 helpless
Unable to manage independently.
Polish: bezsilny, bezradny
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