What is another word for defenseless?
905 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dɪfˈɛnsləs], [ dɪfˈɛnsləs], [ d_ɪ_f_ˈɛ_n_s_l_ə_s]
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Similar words for defenseless:
- all (adjective)
- assailable (adjective)
- attackable (adjective)
- dependent (adjective)
- forlorn (adjective)
- helpless (adjective)
- insecure (adjective)
- naked (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- powerless (adjective)
- prostrate (adjective)
- tottering (adjective)
- vulnerable (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- unprotected (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Defenseless:
adj.
• all (adjective) • assailable (adjective) • attackable (adjective) • dependent (adjective)- more under,
- more abased,
- de pendent,
- most abased,
- more humbled,
- sub ordinate,
- de-based,
- de based,
- most humbled,
- un-sustaining,
- most unsustaining,
- more unsustaining,
- un sustaining,
- most under,
- de-pendent,
- sub-ordinate,
- tied apron strings.
- de stroyed,
- be-reft,
- forgotten,
- de solate,
- down out,
- in dumps,
- de pressed,
- be reft,
- un-happy,
- un happiest,
- de-pressed,
- un happier,
- de-solate,
- un happy,
- in the dumps,
- de-stroyed.
- open attack,
- in-substantial,
- un shielded,
- un safest,
- un safer,
- in securer,
- un-steadier,
- un steadiest,
- un-sounder,
- in-securest,
- more unshielded,
- un steady,
- un sound,
- un-soundest,
- un-safer,
- in substantial,
- un-stablest,
- more rootless,
- in securest,
- most fluctuant,
- in-secure,
- rickety,
- more fluctuant,
- un-sound,
- un-stable,
- most unshielded,
- un-stabler,
- un stabler,
- in-securer,
- un-shielded,
- un reliable,
- un safe,
- in secure,
- un-guarded,
- most rootless,
- un stablest,
- un sounder,
- un guarded,
- un steadier,
- un-safest,
- un-steadiest,
- un-reliable,
- un-safe,
- un stable.
- in the buff,
- leafless,
- in birthday suit,
- without a stitch,
- stark-naked,
- bare-skinned,
- stark naked,
- undraped,
- unveiled,
- bareskinned,
- in dishabille,
- in the altogether,
- stripped,
- in the raw.
- down and out,
- on the line,
- on line,
- Unsustaining,
- tottering,
- naked,
- weak,
- Attackable,
- wide open,
- out on limb,
- forlorn,
- powerless,
- insecure,
- open to attack,
- on the spot,
- dependent,
- under thumb,
- vulnerable,
- tied to apron strings,
- rootless,
- Fluctuant,
- unshielded,
- disenfranchised,
- vincible,
- out of gas,
- assailable.
- in-effective,
- in-capacitated,
- dis-enfranchised,
- more chicken,
- wishywashy,
- un armed,
- in effective,
- in-capable,
- most disenfranchised,
- in-effectual,
- more etiolated,
- out gas,
- dis enfranchised,
- more disenfranchised,
- wimpest,
- in capable,
- un-armed,
- in effectual,
- most etiolated,
- in capacitated,
- wimper,
- most chicken,
- wishy washy.
n.
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•
- enfeebled,
- sickly,
- delicate,
- infirm,
- malnourished.
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•
- safety.
- low,
- faint,
- Weak-minded,
- lax,
- friendless,
- uncovered,
- weak link,
- impotence,
- homeless,
- unguarded,
- feeble,
- deserted,
- thin,
- corrupt,
- dweeb,
- soft target,
- effete,
- frailty,
- helpless,
- weaponless,
- susceptible,
- flesh,
- shaky,
- ebb,
- fair game,
- frail,
- unarmored,
- abandoned,
- weak spot,
- house,
- forsaken,
- fallible,
- porous,
- defencelessly,
- impotent,
- flaccid,
- faintness,
- wet,
- wonky,
- unsuspecting,
- poodle,
- mercy,
- motherless,
- falter,
- unwatched,
- malleable,
- fatherless,
- limp,
- light,
- weak-willed,
- bitch,
- unarmed,
- totter,
- suggestible,
- unscreened,
- outcast,
- weed,
- unwarned,
- sitting target,
- toothless,
- underbelly,
- wraith,
- untenable,
- puny,
- weak-kneed,
- chink,
- Guardless,
- Unfriended,
- watery,
- failing,
- leaderless,
- paper tiger,
- weedy,
- Aidless,
- achilles heel,
- unsheltered,
- Unfortified,
- desolate,
- undefended,
- indefensible,
- man of straw,
- kithless,
- unprotected,
- debility,
- pliant,
- rocky,
- soft,
- susceptibility,
- submissive,
- unsteady,
- submission,
- Ungarrisoned,
- supine,
- bare-handed,
- weakling,
- unattended,
- wimp,
- wuss,
- drippy,
- sitting duck,
- weakness,
- Guideless,
- namby-pamby,
- Pregnable,
- chinless,
- defenceless,
- paper,
- godforsaken,
- etiolated.
Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words:- luminance,
- scanty,
- uneffective,
- desert,
- depopulate,
- bracing,
- jolting,
- homeless person,
- scrawny,
- air,
- vice,
- menage,
- stateless,
- sloshed,
- unprotectedness,
- bare-ass,
- conk,
- impoverished,
- ailing,
- strung-out,
- first,
- unfirm,
- defile,
- roofless,
- slim down,
- depressed,
- overbold,
- mild,
- au naturel,
- defenselessness,
- thin out,
- heart-to-heart,
- serious,
- scant,
- cushy,
- bod,
- soppy,
- illumination,
- slim,
- forsake,
- dependant,
- dimness,
- rock oil,
- receptive,
- easygoing,
- soma,
- soupy,
- soused,
- check,
- peaked,
- sonant,
- seesaw,
- derelict,
- misdirect,
- human body,
- unable,
- grass,
- unfastened,
- lowly,
- simple,
- elastic,
- fossil oil,
- piteous,
- pixilated,
- inadequate,
- rubber,
- devoid,
- unsuspicious,
- weakly,
- open air,
- refreshed,
- depression,
- diffuse,
- refreshful,
- nerveless,
- ductile,
- refreshing,
- humiliated,
- cunt,
- slender,
- loose,
- entry,
- unrefined,
- stutter,
- compliance,
- boney,
- blind drunk,
- slushy,
- undecided,
- gross,
- subdued,
- crocked,
- faintheartedness,
- stammer,
- capable,
- down,
- abandon,
- illuminate,
- lightheaded,
- underweight,
- downhearted,
- profane,
- tonic,
- light-headed,
- sappy,
- ticklish,
- fuddled,
- jejune,
- sweet,
- touchy,
- luminousness,
- lightly,
- stiff,
- slopped,
- poodle dog,
- hooked,
- slight,
- buy,
- alight,
- shivering,
- ebbing,
- first gear,
- debase,
- swot,
- lighting,
- lean,
- denudate,
- blunt,
- cockeyed,
- quarry,
- indulgent,
- barren,
- green,
- mere,
- incapacitated,
- precarious,
- subservient,
- necessitous,
- bouldered,
- luminosity,
- imperfect,
- squiffy,
- naked as a jaybird,
- sess,
- invigorated,
- bellyache,
- sallow,
- shade,
- fragile,
- poverty-stricken,
- exposure,
- unaccented,
- low-spirited,
- pass out,
- newspaper,
- tenuous,
- denuded,
- faltering,
- lost,
- open up,
- lite,
- timid,
- tinkle,
- easy mark,
- swoon,
- rough,
- stripped-down,
- pendent,
- melt off,
- hitch,
- tainted,
- perch,
- sore,
- illumine,
- wise,
- overt,
- vanquishable,
- dim,
- saucy,
- dismount,
- physical body,
- rachitic,
- scummy,
- slack,
- kick,
- doormat,
- humbled,
- grievous,
- life-threatening,
- fire,
- moo,
- smart,
- ishmael,
- down in the mouth,
- vulgar,
- flimsy,
- spineless,
- prophylactic,
- brightness,
- barefaced,
- clean,
- lay waste to,
- clemency,
- visible light,
- wane,
- lame,
- hesitation,
- unsafe,
- drug-addicted,
- piano,
- sign of the zodiac,
- indisposed,
- single-handed,
- lenient,
- lightsome,
- nonresistant,
- opened,
- pie-eyed,
- superable,
- freshly,
- apt,
- decrepit,
- plain,
- unfermented,
- physique,
- spread out,
- hapless,
- scraggly,
- unprocessed,
- unwarrantable,
- domiciliate,
- twinkle,
- natural,
- theatre,
- reinvigorated,
- skew-whiff,
- light source,
- spare,
- under the weather,
- pathetic,
- wild,
- refuge,
- mawkish,
- poor people,
- waddle,
- weakly interacting massive particle,
- wobbly,
- lactating,
- impotency,
- new,
- anatomy,
- crab,
- young,
- shape,
- sully,
- smashed,
- pitiable,
- spread,
- miserable,
- tractile,
- bow down,
- flunk,
- awry,
- voiceless,
- nonimmune,
- unbacked,
- voiced,
- figure,
- finespun,
- subvert,
- marginal,
- demoralize,
- bald-headed,
- stern,
- spark,
- crushed,
- gloomy,
- unfold,
- slavish,
- ghost,
- household,
- novel,
- sentimental,
- bribe,
- publicize,
- ravage,
- afford,
- crooked,
- sparkle,
- pariah,
- bald-pated,
- frame,
- fainthearted,
- mercifulness,
- shrimpy,
- beef,
- grease one's palms,
- gimp,
- meekness,
- clink,
- brightness level,
- smoke,
- neglected,
- cut,
- seedy,
- flabby,
- earthy,
- theme,
- reeking,
- base hit,
- fall,
- sparse,
- wishy-washy,
- corrupted,
- safe,
- build,
- unused,
- abstemious,
- newly,
- bleak,
- unwarranted,
- ineffectual,
- unresolved,
- frailness,
- igniter,
- thinly,
- promiscuous,
- crude oil,
- newspaper publisher,
- unripened,
- vagabond,
- ignitor,
- blue,
- beatable,
- devastate,
- planetary house,
- denude,
- guard,
- low-down,
- coggle,
- safety device,
- dodder,
- altogether,
- specter,
- maudlin,
- composition,
- schmalzy,
- askew,
- stark,
- bony,
- scurvy,
- sens,
- prone,
- skinny,
- small,
- spectre,
- vague,
- syncope,
- mourning band,
- calorie-free,
- light up,
- illume,
- free,
- depleted,
- sign,
- sapless,
- unsheathed,
- humble,
- unfledged,
- pervert,
- tight,
- waver,
- backbite,
- flat,
- idle,
- resupine,
- squawk,
- unembellished,
- subordinate,
- crybaby,
- waste,
- inner light,
- out-of-doors,
- vitiate,
- mushy,
- cutting,
- holey,
- nude painting,
- taint,
- disfranchised,
- reflux,
- abject,
- bumpy,
- grave,
- drizzly,
- ascetic,
- unarmoured,
- demoralise,
- toddle,
- stumble,
- soft spot,
- impertinent,
- poriferous,
- light within,
- easy,
- strip,
- wretched,
- severe,
- qualified,
- wispy,
- scraggy,
- wilted,
- plastered,
- incompetent,
- dispossessed,
- plastic,
- unequal to,
- surface,
- locoweed,
- chassis,
- reduce,
- light-colored,
- holler,
- balmy,
- form,
- lighter,
- ebb away,
- nude sculpture,
- get off,
- visible radiation,
- castaway,
- pissed,
- wakeful,
- give,
- loaded,
- bendable,
- nude statue,
- candid,
- paddle,
- material body,
- unclouded,
- home,
- misfortunate,
- unripe,
- bouldery,
- target,
- blotto,
- voteless,
- ascetical,
- etiolate,
- chinaman,
- deprave,
- insupportable,
- lightness,
- underbody,
- put up,
- ebb off,
- scourge,
- impuissance,
- undetermined,
- stony,
- pitiful,
- outdoors,
- unhorse,
- kitschy,
- get down,
- sluttish,
- tripping,
- swooning,
- birthday suit,
- slenderize,
- gage,
- brisk,
- cloud,
- pendant,
- debauch,
- green goddess,
- tender,
- spoil,
- modest,
- sozzled,
- weak part,
- rude,
- wallpaper,
- dilute,
- hobble,
- business firm,
- broken,
- tink,
- sensitive,
- poorly,
- flexible,
- skunk,
- feebleness,
- condom,
- grind,
- report,
- unjustifiable,
- disregarded,
- subject,
- shadowy,
- impudent,
- waxy,
- grouse,
- needy,
- pot,
- click,
- firm,
- soaked,
- diffused,
- schmaltzy,
- trembling,
- dispirited,
- grim,
- spook,
- innocent,
- unornamented,
- nude person,
- indigent,
- prey,
- ignite,
- lopsided,
- short,
- moisture,
- unsanded,
- unfinished,
- gripe,
- downcast,
- faint-hearted,
- peeled,
- infirmity,
- low-toned,
- bumble,
- wonk,
- gentle,
- low-pitched,
- star sign,
- unwell,
- chicken,
- bathetic,
- teeter,
- pulp,
- bare-assed,
- theater,
- oil,
- low gear,
- pliable,
- clear,
- spartan,
- wanton,
- mansion,
- gutless,
- besotted,
- jolty,
- runty,
- washy,
- fire up,
- tensile,
- primitive,
- low-cal,
- sassy,
- petroleum,
- publicise,
- susceptibleness,
- nerd,
- dope,
- blanched,
- ebb out,
- jumpy,
- hokey,
- ebb down.
- bare,
- Caught,
- harmless,
- fresh,
- unresistant,
- raw,
- austere,
- fenceless,
- armless,
- Harborless,
- liable,
- bald,
- helplessness,
- unaided,
- exposed,
- ineffective,
- vulnerability,
- up the creek,
- in jeopardy,
- expugnable,
- like a clay pigeon,
- threatened,
- poor,
- unassisted,
- crude,
- defenselessly,
- defencelessness,
- incapable,
- powerlessness,
- Unstrengthened,
- unsupported,
- immature,
- pigeon,
- destitute,
- open,
- in line of fire,
- like a sitting duck,
- endangered,
- open to,
- hands tied,
- nude,
- tottery.
How to use "Defenseless" in context?
When we think of the word "defenseless," we often associate it with things like babies, the elderly, and the weak. But there are plenty of people out there who are considered to be "defenseless" in the eyes of the law. This includes people who are homeless, people with mental disabilities, and people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol.
There are a number of different reasons why people might be considered to be "defenseless" in the eyes of the law. This includes the fact that they are unable to defend themselves because they are physically or mentally incapacitated.
Paraphrases for Defenseless:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
defenceless, helpless, unarmed, vulnerable.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
powerless.
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