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helplessness
(encz) | helplessness,bezmocnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Helplessness
(gcide) | 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.
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How shall I then your helpless fame defend? --Pope.
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2. Beyond help; irremediable.
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Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of
mind or body. --Milton.
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3. Bringing no help; unaiding. [Obs.]
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Yet since the gods have been
Helpless foreseers of my plagues. --Chapman.
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4. Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of. [R.]
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Helpless of all that human wants require. --Dryden.
-- Help"less*ly, adv. -- Help"less*ness, n.
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helplessness
(wn) | helplessness
n 1: powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of
their weakness the group remains active" [syn:
helplessness, weakness, impuissance]
2: the state of needing help from something
3: a feeling of being unable to manage |
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helplessness
(encz) | helplessness,bezmocnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
helplessness
(wn) | helplessness
n 1: powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of
their weakness the group remains active" [syn:
helplessness, weakness, impuissance]
2: the state of needing help from something
3: a feeling of being unable to manage |
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