1 unable to take care of yourself or do things without the help of other people:
the helpless victims of war * a helpless gesture / look * He lay helpless on the floor. * It's natural to feel helpless against such abuse. * The worst part is being helpless to change anything.
2 ~ (with sth) unable to control a strong feeling:
helpless panic / rage * The audience was helpless with laughter.
helplessly adverb:
They watched helplessly as their home went up in flames.
helplessness noun [U]:
a feeling / sense of helplessness
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for helpless is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is helpless a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, helpless is tagged as adjective.
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