helpless
adjective /ˈhelp.ləs/Definition
C1 unable to do anything to help yourself or anyone else: a helpless two-day-old baby You feel so helpless because there's nothing you can do to make the child better. The government is helpless (to act) against these crooks.Weakness and vulnerability helplessly /-li/ adverb › Unable to swim, he watched helplessly as the child struggled desperately in the water.Weakness and vulnerability helplessness /-nəs/ noun [U] › I was overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness as I was wheeled into the operating theatre.Weakness and vulnerability
(Definition of helpless adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- Achilles heel noun
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- faint adjective (SLIGHT)
- frailty noun
- impotent adjective (LACKING POWER)
- indefensible adjective
- lax adjective
- man of straw noun (WEAK)
- mercy noun (KINDNESS)
- susceptibility noun
- susceptible adjective (INFLUENCED)
- toothless adjective (NO POWER)
- underbelly noun
- unprotected adjective
- unsteady adjective
- vulnerable adjective
- wraith noun
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