Crossword clues for helpless
helpless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Helpless \Help"less\, a.
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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. -
Beyond help; irremediable.
Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body.
--Milton. -
Bringing no help; unaiding. [Obs.]
Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues.
--Chapman. -
Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of. [R.]
Helpless of all that human wants require.
--Dryden. -- Help"less*ly, adv. -- Help"less*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"unable to act for oneself," c.1200, from help (n.) + -less. Related: Helplessly; helplessness. In Middle English and later sometimes also "unable to give help, affording no help" (late 14c.), but this was never common.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Unable to defend oneself or to act without help. 2 uncontrollable.
WordNet
adj. lacking in or deprived of strength or power; "lying ill and helpless"; "helpless with laughter" [syn: incapacitated]
unable to function; without help [syn: lost]
unable to manage independently; "as helpless as a baby"
Wikipedia
Helpless is a play by Dusty Hughes which premièred at the Donmar Warehouse, London on March 2, 2000. It is set in England before, during, and after the 1997 general elections, which resulted in New Labour's landslide victory and in Tony Blair becoming Prime Minister.
"Helpless" is the twelfth episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Helpless may refer to:
Helpless is a 2012 South Korean psychological mystery/thriller written and directed by Byun Young-joo based on the bestselling novel by Japanese writer Miyabe Miyuki.
A man searches for his fiancée who vanished without a trace, only to discover dark, shocking truths about her and that she wasn’t the person he thought he knew.
"Helpless" is the tenth song from Act 1 of the 2015 musical Hamilton. It was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
"Helpless" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their 1970 album Déjà Vu.
"Helpless" was originally recorded with Young's band Crazy Horse in early 1969, before Young's new CSNY bandmates (he had joined the then-trio in mid-1969) convinced him it would suit them better. The song was simple, at its core effectively the repetition of one melody over a descending D-A-G chord progression. The group found difficulty deciding on an arrangement and many different versions of the song were recorded before the group finally decided on the slow-paced version that appeared on the album. On this final version Young was in the foreground, singing the verses and the chorus with his bandmates providing the "helpless" refrain, while the instrumentation came in the form of acoustic guitar, electric guitar (with volume pedal and tremolo), piano, bass and drums. It became one of the most revered songs from the Déjà Vu album ( Q magazine's Peter Doggett regards it as "one of (the album's) showpieces"), and has remained a live favorite of Young's for over thirty years. An alternate mix of the CSNY version was released on Neil Young's "Archives Vol. 1." It features Young playing harmonica prominently in the mix.
The "town in North Ontario" referred to in the opening line of the song is often presumed to be Ontario native Young's hometown; Young himself cleared up the rumors in a 1995 Mojo interview with Nick Kent:
"Well, it's not literally a specific town so much as a feeling. Actually, it's a couple of towns. Omemee, Ontario, is one of them. It's where I first went to school and spent my 'formative' years. Actually I was born in Toronto..."Omemee, just west of Peterborough, is well within what is now considered Southern Ontario, and 130 km from Toronto by road.
Usage examples of "helpless".
When Jefferson inquired whether Adams might borrow again from the Dutch, and reported that French officers in Paris were angry over not having been paid what they were due for services in the Revolution, Adams was helpless to do anything.
He had dwelt here in the Scarlet Pylon, alone with his memories amid the ruins of his people, until the coming of Sarchimus, who discovered him during a period of slumber or aestivation, when he was virtually helpless.
Even after all those years, after what he had done to her family, she was as helpless as a Pavlovian dog to stop her response to him.
Even as the door slid shut behind him, a half dozen voices inside her head were whispering warnings of where the danger in this plan might lie, describing the various things that Allo and the Guild might do to her while she was chilled and helpless.
Even in her worst moments on Amabile or in her most discouraging moments of search, she had not been this helpless.
And as she descended she was battered by debris, helpless ammonites, clams, squid, even rocks torn from the floor.
The amphicyon glared in helpless rage at the small human sitting high above it, the human that was forcing, bending, compelling.
It is charged that to-day, in American physiological laboratories and in medical schools as well, helpless animals are subjected to torture.
Maybe there was something to the simpering, helpless, batting-the-eyelashes style of coquettishness practiced by these antebellum women.
IX He felt the wild beast in him betweenwhiles So masterfully rude, that he would grieve To see the helpless delicate thing receive His guardianship through certain dark defiles.
His competitors like Harcourt Biosciences were helpless, buried by an avalanche of new government restrictions on their research.
She had reared eyasses-young birds hatched in the mews or captured still helpless, accustomed before they were feathered to feed from a hand or glove.
She moaned, falling helpless, lost down a black velvet tunnel of exquisite arousal.
African blacks found themselves especially helpless when removed from this.
An attack by tactical fighters against Iceland was expected at any time, and the bomber crews knew that any NATO fighter pilot worthy of his name would instantly jettison his bombload for a chance at air-to-air combat with so helpless a target as a twenty-year-old Badger.