Hypertext Webster Gateway: "helplessness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Helpless \Help"less\, a.
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.]

Helpless of all that human wants require. --Dryden.
-- {Help"less*ly}, adv. -- {Help"less*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

helplessness
n 1: powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of
their weakness the group remains highly active" [syn: {weakness},
{impuissance}]
2: the state of needing help from something
3: a feeling of being unable to manage


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