What does "helpless" mean?
Helpless: Beyond help; irremediable. Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body. Milton.
Additional senses
- 2.Bringing no help; unaiding. [Obs.] Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues. Chapman.
- 3.Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of. [R.] Helpless of all that human wants require. Dryden. -- Help"less*ly, adv. -- Help"less*ness, n.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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