Crossword clues for helplessness
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?
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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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being helpless. 2 A feeling of inadequacy or impotence.
WordNet
n. powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of their weakness the group remains highly active" [syn: weakness, impuissance]
the state of needing help from something
a feeling of being unable to manage
Usage examples of "helplessness".
It maddened and sickened him, the very thought of his helplessness, so Aeschylean in its torturing complications, so ironic in its refinement of cruelty.
Pity welled up in me, with a sense of helplessness, as I thought of him opening the door to men, night after night, at his establishment in the Algedonic Quarter.
He went away again before Claribel could ask any questions and presently returned with the girl, small and slim and dark with an elfin prettiness and an air of helplessness.
America: the desperation of starving settlers, the special helplessness of the displaced African, the powerful incentive of profit for slave trader and planter, the temptation of superior status for poor whites, the elaborate controls against escape and rebellion, the legal and social punishment of black and white collaboration.
After the huge losses we had suffered on the riverboats, after the helplessness the troops had felt watching the conventional knights being slaughtered west of Sandomierz, after the confusion of the battle at Cracow, after seeing the senseless slaughter at East Gate, and after all the mind-numbing running and pulling in between, finally, at last, something was working perfectly!
Leukemia was the epitome of my helplessness, for the treatment was to bomb the bone marrow with cell poisons called cytotoxins until it looked, under the microscope, like Hiroshima, all black, empty, and scorched.
He evidently fears discovery or interference, in the state of helplessness in which he must be, confined as he is between dawn and sunset in his wooden box.
Thompson in the rightfeeling for a moment a chill of helplessness until he gained his feet and could put his hand on the forestock of the Thompson.
They gave the pills time to take general effect, giving us all a good jolt of euphoria, which always comes in handy, and curing our helplessness.
The research also dealt with psychoneuroimmunology, learned helplessness in mental health, the health benefits of meditation and contemplative prayer, and the impact of spiritually transforming experiences on the field of psychiatry itself.
The moonstone flashed as vibrant as ever, and, as she rolled it in her palm, she was suddenly wrenched by sobs of helplessness.
Why was he wasting his time, leaving his section of the border unpatrolled, tearing up his insides with his own helplessness?
In short, their proceedings are a series of confessions of helplessness, of premature declarations of failure.
Thou hearkenest to the petitions of those who are in their tombs, thou dispellest their helplessness and drivest away evil from them.
Therefore, when kindergartners who showed the signs of helplessness failed, they felt they were bad.