English-Thai Dictionary

helpless

ADJ หมดหนทาง  ช่วยไม่ได้  impotent powerless vulnerable invulnerable powerful mod-hon-tang

 

helplessly

ADV อย่าง หมดหนทาง  อย่าง ช่วยไม่ได้  impotently powerlessly vulnerably invulnerably powerfully yang-mod-hon-tang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HELPLESS

a.Without help in one's self; destitute of the power or means to succor or relieve one's self. A person is rendered helpless by weakness, or want of means. An infant is helpless.
1. Destitute of support or assistance.
How shall I then your helpless fame defend?
2. Admitting no help; irremediable. [Not used. ]
3. Unsupplied; destitute.
Helpless of all that human wants require. [Not used. ]

 

HELPLESSLY

adv. Without succor.

 

HELPLESSNESS

n.Want of strength or ability; inability; want of means in one's self to obtain relief in trouble, or to accomplish one's purposes or desires. It is the tendency of sickness to reduce our extravagant self-estimation, by exhibiting our solitary helplessness.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HELPLESS

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. 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. [Obs. ] Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues. Chapman.

 

4. Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of. [R.] Helpless of all that human wants require. Dryden. -- Help "less *ly, adv. -- Help "less *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

helpless

help less |ˈhelplis ˈhɛlpləs | ▶adjective unable to defend oneself or to act without help: the cubs are born blind and helpless. • uncontrollable: they burst into helpless laughter. DERIVATIVES help less ly adverb, help less ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

helpless

help |less |ˈhɛlplɪs | ▶adjective unable to defend oneself or to act without help: the cubs are born blind and helpless. • uncontrollable: they burst into helpless laughter. DERIVATIVES helplessly adverb, helplessness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

helpless

helpless adjective the cubs are born blind and helpless: dependent, incapable, powerless, impotent, weak; defenseless, vulnerable, exposed, unprotected, open to attack; paralyzed, disabled. ANTONYMS independent.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

helpless

helpless adjective the cubs are born blind and helpless: dependent, incapable, powerless, impotent, weak, weakly, feeble; defenceless, unprotected, vulnerable, exposed, easily hurt, easily destroyed, open to attack. ANTONYMS independent, capable of looking after oneself.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

helpless

help less /hélpləs /→help 形容詞 more ～; most ～1 自分では何も [どうにも ]できない , 体を動かす力がない ; «…に対して /…するのに » どうにもできない , 無力な «against /to do » ▸ a helpless patient ひとりでは動けない患者 ▸ Science looked helpless against this disease .科学はこの病気に対してなすすべがないかのようであった ▸ She was helpless to act .彼女はどうにも動けなかった 2 【感情などが 】抑えられない «with » ▸ The girl was helpless with laughter .その少女はどうしても笑いが止まらなかった .3 〈表情などが 〉困ったような ; 〈人などが 〉助けのない ▸ give a helpless look 困ったような顔をする ～ness 名詞

 

helplessly

h é lp less ly 副詞 力なく, どうしようもなく .