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[ US /ˈhɛɫpɫəs/ ]
[ UK /hˈɛlpləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking in or deprived of strength or power
    helpless with laughter
    lying ill and helpless
  2. unable to manage independently
    as helpless as a baby
  3. unable to function; without help

How To Use helpless In A Sentence

  • I was overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness as I watched her being wheeled into the operating theatre.
  • I wanted, desperately needed for him to reach across the line that he had drawn, and so it was with dumb horror that I watched him retreat, his expression turning lawyerly even as I read the helplessness in his eyes. Dreaming in French
  • The unhappy helplessness of the man in the foxskin coat evidently afforded him great pleasure. The Schoolmistress and other stories
  • The themes of separation and helplessness are probably objectifications of his own grief over the loss of his wife.
  • Individuals can respond to these experiences with intense fear, horror or a sense of helplessness.
  • Often the parent feels helpless and very discouraged and may also give up on the child which reinforces the child's feelings of inadequacy and may cause the child to retreat or regress further.
  • They don't really have a choice Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become an alien, an aileron and an ailurophile. Lore Sj
  • I used to read it aloud to my little brother, and we'd collapse into helpless laughter.
  • On no night did I see more than forty or fifty who might be said to be "soused"; on no night did I see more than a dozen or fifteen who had to be thrown into the accommodation barge with the "dead ones," the helpless ones who were so far gone that they had to be carried up the sides of their ships from the barge which made the last rounds of the fleet. The U-boat hunters
  • I was helplessly trapped in the cockpit with the aircraft lying on its starboard side.
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