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adjective

Helpless adj.

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?"

Beyond help; irremediable. "Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body."

Bringing no help; unaiding. (Obs.) "Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues."

Unsupplied; destitute; with of. (R.) "Helpless of all that human wants require."

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Etymology of 'Helpless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Helpless" Quotes from Famous Books

... it on the ground. We were three miles from town. Scared? We were terrified! All of us were trembling from head to foot with fright. There were no Boy Scouts in those days, and boys had not learned the scientific way to restore a drowned person to life. We were alone and helpless in the presence of sudden death, and knew not what ...

— "Say Fellows--" - Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues • Wade C. Smith

... pensioners on the bounty of those strangers by whom their fortunes have been overthrown. They who were noble and gentle for ages are now merged in the common mass of the people. All over those vast regions there are countless millions, helpless and defenceless, deprived of their natural leaders and their ancient chiefs, looking with only some small ray of hope to that omnipresent and irresistible Power by which they have been subjected. I appeal to ...

— Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 • John Bright

... Great writhing coils came belching up from below and burst under her chin and almost swamped her. One, as strong as a snake, rose suddenly under her, flung her off her stroke, rolled her over, made her for a moment feel utterly helpless. ...

— Pearl of Pearl Island • John Oxenham

... if her womanhood remain true, the shallow criticism of others cannot greatly harm her. I had three alternatives in this case—I could selfishly accept my handful of money, go to Denver, and leave these other helpless people here to suffer; I could accept assistance from you, a comparative stranger; or I could aid them and earn my own way by assuming an unpleasant task. I chose the last, and my ...

— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish

... listening breathlessly, panting with terror. The fisherman held out a whole day, but he who had murdered was driven by unbearable fear out into the open, where he could see his enemy. He was seen and hunted, but it seemed to him seven times better than to lie still in helpless inactivity. He fled from his pursuers, slid down precipices, sprang over streams, climbed up perpendicular mountain walls. All latent strength and dexterity in him was called forth by the excitement of danger. His body became elastic like a steel spring, his foot made no false step, ...

— Invisible Links • Selma Lagerlof

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