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.
How shall I then your helpless fame defend? Pope.
2. Beyond help; irremediable.
Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body. Milton.
3. Bringing no help; unaiding.
Yet since the gods have been
Helpless foreseers of my plagues. Chapman.
4. Unsupplied; destitute; — with of.
Helpless of all that human wants require. Dryden.
— Help″less‐ly, adv. — Help″less‐ness, n.