helpless
/ˈhɛlpləs
/adjective
1Unable to defend oneself or to act without help: the cubs are born blind and helpless...
- I am a police captain and feel totally helpless as I am unable to help my city and my family.
- Why do we decide it is none of our business or that we are helpless to do anything about it?
- Is there anything worse than watching someone you love have to suffer while you're helpless to do anything to help?
Synonyms
dependent, incapable, powerless, impotent, weak, weakly, feeble;
defenceless, unprotected, vulnerable, exposed, easily hurt, easily destroyed, open to attack
1.1Uncontrollable: they burst into helpless laughter...
- Within moments, we would be dissolved into hopeless, helpless, joyful laughter.
- These three had the same effect on me as she had on Prince Charles: they reduced me to helpless laughter.
- I used to read it aloud to my little brother, and we'd collapse into helpless laughter.
- self-select
- self-selecting
- self-selection
- self-service
- self-serving
- self-shifter
- self-similar
- self-similarity
- self-slaughter
- self-soothe
- self-sow
- self-standing
- self-starter
- self-starting
- self-sterile
- self-sterility
- self-stick
- self-stimulation
- self-storage
- self-study
- self-styled
- self-subsistent
- self-sufficiency
- self-sufficient
- self-sufficiently