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Synonyms for helpless
ˈhɛlp lɪshelp·less
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
helpless
Synonyms:
contemptible, despicable, feeble, harmless, powerless, weakAntonyms:
dangerous, formidable, redoubted, terrible, tremendous
Princeton's WordNet
helpless, incapacitatedadjective
lacking in or deprived of strength or power
"lying ill and helpless"; "helpless with laughter"
Synonyms:
lost, incapacitatedAntonyms:
independent, powerful, hopefulhelpless, lostadjective
unable to function; without help
Synonyms:
befuddled, lost(p), mixed-up, disoriented, lost, bemused, deep in thought(p), preoccupied, at sea, missed, confused, incapacitated, baffled, confounded, mazed, bewilderedAntonyms:
hopeful, powerful, independenthelplessadjective
unable to manage independently
"as helpless as a baby"
Synonyms:
lost, incapacitatedAntonyms:
powerful, hopeful, independent
Dictionary of English Synonymes
helplessadjective
Synonyms:
weak, feeble, powerless, impotent, imbecile, disabled, infirmhelplessadjective
Synonyms:
exposed, defenceless, unprotectedhelplessadjective
Synonyms:
irremediable, beyond help
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "helpless":
defenceless, powerless, defenseless, impotent, unarmed, harmless, destitute, helplessness
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1079 | lost | |
#3907 | missed | |
#4981 | weak | |
#6878 | confused | |
#14453 | harmless | |
#19578 | helpless | |
#30704 | powerless | |
#31313 | feeble | |
#35434 | unarmed | |
#38053 | baffled | |
#40280 | preoccupied | |
#41565 | bewildered | |
#43109 | incapacitated | |
#43391 | destitute | |
#47706 | despicable | |
#49426 | confounded | |
#49680 | helplessness | |
#51065 | impotent | |
#61459 | defenseless | |
#66194 | disoriented | |
#69737 | bemused | |
#79651 | contemptible | |
#95677 | befuddled | |
#107376 | defenceless |
How to use helpless in a sentence?
I don't know why. I don't know why he stopped, but as much as I'm going to try to articulate how traumatizing it is to be hiding under your desk, you don't know until you're there and you feel helpless.
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.
Many people in the community feel helpless, but they also realize the power of prayer and the power of our historic theology.
He was known to walk among the people, he reached out to gang members; he reached out to the homeless; he reached out to the transients. He was the help of the helpless and the hope of the hopeless, and he knew that serving God meant serving man, especially the most vulnerable in our society.
She was on a ventilator, she looked so helpless...
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