What is another word for helpless?
634 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ hˈɛlpləs], [ hˈɛlpləs], [ h_ˈɛ_l_p_l_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for helpless:
- all (adjective)
- clumsy (adjective)
- defenseless (adjective)
- disabled (adjective)
- downtrodden (adjective)
- feeble (adjective)
- forlorn (adjective)
- helpless (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- impotent (adjective)
- incapacitated (adjective)
- incompetent (adjective)
- naked (adjective)
- oppressed (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- palsied (adjective)
- paralyzed (adjective)
- powerless (adjective)
- stranded (adjective)
- unable (adjective)
- unprotected (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- dependent (noun)
- helpless (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- awkward
- downhearted
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Helpless:
adj.
• all (adjective) • clumsy (adjective)- hulking,
- elephantine,
- uncouth,
- gauche,
- bumbling,
- ham-handed,
- lumbering,
- untactful,
- oafish,
- Blundering,
- unskillful,
- uneasy,
- stumbling,
- inexperienced,
- heavy-handed,
- crude,
- heavy,
- graceless,
- untoward,
- gawky,
- weedy,
- ungainly,
- bulky,
- uncoordinated,
- bungling,
- unwieldy,
- ponderous,
- lumpish,
- inelegant.
- hands tied,
- unguarded,
- endangered,
- wide open,
- on the line,
- Caught,
- indefensible,
- in line of fire,
- on the spot,
- out on limb,
- open,
- like a sitting duck,
- on line,
- up the creek,
- like a clay pigeon,
- pigeon.
- worn-out,
- in firm,
- confined,
- out of action,
- Stalled,
- maimed,
- lame,
- wrecked,
- out-of-commission,
- sidelined,
- Hamstrung,
- hurt,
- handicapped,
- out-of-action,
- wounded,
- broken-down,
- weakened,
- decrepit,
- broken down,
- Disarmed,
- laid-up,
- run-down.
- needy,
- subjugated,
- Tyrannized,
- maltreated,
- exploited,
- suppressed,
- mistreated,
- in one's clutches,
- overcome,
- distressed,
- have-not,
- underfoot,
- abject,
- in one's power,
- a slave to,
- subservient,
- persecuted.
- frail,
- gentle,
- insufficient,
- etiolated,
- languid,
- wimpy,
- weakly,
- tame,
- insubstantial,
- enfeebled,
- slight,
- enervated,
- ailing,
- puny,
- aged,
- delicate,
- fragile,
- sickly,
- failing,
- sapless,
- flabby,
- out of gas,
- Strengthless,
- unconvincing,
- low,
- inefficient,
- exhausted,
- fainter,
- dopey,
- flat,
- doddering,
- faint,
- emasculated,
- indecisive,
- woozy,
- effete,
- vitiated,
- thin,
- paltry.
- forgotten,
- desolate,
- homeless,
- wretched,
- deserted,
- depressed,
- unhappy,
- woebegone,
- lonesome,
- tragic,
- vain,
- lonely,
- disconsolate,
- godforsaken,
- dragging,
- futile,
- pitiful,
- pathetic,
- solitary,
- destroyed,
- bereft,
- miserable,
- fruitless,
- cynical,
- pessimistic,
- in the dumps,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- cheerless,
- weighed down,
- alone,
- comfortless,
- pitiable,
- desperate.
- infirm,
- shiftless,
- basket-case,
- forsaken,
- destitute,
- Handcuffed,
- friendless,
- with hands tied,
- pinned,
- dependent,
- exposed,
- tapped out,
- debilitated,
- over a barrel,
- up creek without paddle,
- tapped,
- prostrate.
- irreversible,
- sad,
- impossible,
- pointless,
- shot down,
- no-win,
- dejected,
- unachievable,
- downhearted,
- unfortunate,
- incurable,
- irrevocable,
- irreparable,
- irremediable,
- irredeemable,
- demoralized,
- discouraging,
- threatening,
- menacing,
- in despair,
- sinister,
- useless,
- impracticable,
- beyond recall,
- goner,
- worsening,
- past hope,
- sunk,
- ill-fated,
- unmitigable,
- unavailing,
- fatal.
- gutless,
- Infecund,
- dud,
- sterile,
- paper tiger,
- unfruitful,
- crippled,
- forceless,
- nerveless,
- unproductive,
- barren.
- most floundering,
- most unadapted,
- out lunch,
- more floundering,
- un adapted,
- un-initiated,
- un-fitted,
- un trained,
- most unproficient,
- more disqualified,
- un skilled,
- more amateur,
- dis qualified,
- un initiated,
- bushleague,
- dis-qualified,
- most disqualified,
- un qualified,
- more unequipped,
- un proficient,
- more unproficient,
- un-trained,
- un-qualified,
- un-equipped,
- un equipped,
- most unfitted,
- more unadapted,
- un-skilled,
- in eligible,
- most amateur,
- in competent,
- more unfitted,
- in-eligible,
- most unequipped,
- un-proficient,
- in-competent,
- un-fit,
- un-adapted,
- un fitted.
- in the raw,
- stark naked,
- leafless,
- unveiled,
- in birthday suit,
- stripped,
- undraped,
- stark-naked,
- without a stitch,
- bareskinned,
- in the buff,
- in the altogether,
- in dishabille,
- bare-skinned.
- incompetent,
- lubberly,
- blunderous,
- at one's mercy,
- wornout,
- unadapted,
- disenfranchised,
- oppressed,
- not equal to,
- forlorn,
- powerless,
- defenseless,
- splay,
- no good,
- can't cut it,
- can't hack it,
- disabled,
- under thumb,
- at one's beck and call,
- in power,
- paralyzed,
- under one's thumb,
- unable,
- unfitted,
- ill-shaped,
- stranded,
- at beck and call,
- unadept,
- feeble,
- down and out,
- clownish,
- Unhandy,
- butterfingered,
- unproficient,
- untalented,
- weak,
- can't make the grade,
- led by the nose,
- unarmed,
- not able,
- undexterous,
- gawkish,
- unequipped,
- not have it,
- not cut out for,
- in one's pocket,
- not up to,
- at one's feet,
- naked,
- all thumbs,
- clumsy,
- under foot,
- palsied,
- downtrodden.
- dis-enfranchised,
- wishy washy,
- de-pendent,
- most disenfranchised,
- wishywashy,
- wimper,
- de pendent,
- dis enfranchised,
- more disenfranchised,
- wimpest,
- wimp.
- run aground,
- out in left field,
- left in the lurch,
- on the rocks,
- passed up,
- left at the altar,
- cast away.
- more impuissant,
- un-abler,
- cant make the grade,
- in efficacious,
- un ablest,
- more hog-tied,
- in-operative,
- un abler,
- cant cut it,
- most hog tied,
- most hog-tied,
- not to,
- more hog tied,
- most hogtied,
- most impuissant,
- cant make grade,
- no can do,
- cant hack it,
- in operative,
- can't make grade,
- more hogtied,
- in-efficacious,
- un-ablest.
n.
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- someone couldn't do something if they tried,
- amateur,
- safety,
- awful,
- no-good.
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- help.
Other synonyms:
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- ineffective,
- inexpert,
- unemployable,
- inept,
- amateurish,
- abandoned,
- maladroit,
- ill-prepared,
- ill-equipped.
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- ragged,
- impractical,
- impotent,
- unskilled,
- rusty,
- poor,
- unprotected,
- unfit.
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- unequal.
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- incapable,
- ineffectual,
- inadequate,
- badly.
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- bad.
- wit.
- underdog,
- prevail,
- mindless,
- aimless,
- destruction,
- explosive,
- illomened,
- innocent,
- overpower,
- rudderless,
- unresistant,
- humbled,
- impotently,
- passed out,
- ramshackle,
- laid low,
- exceed,
- crushed,
- adrift,
- bewildered,
- feckless,
- inoffensive,
- Lustless,
- suppress,
- in trouble,
- spent,
- Unfortified,
- mazed,
- unnerved,
- inevitably,
- misery,
- perplexed,
- unstable,
- foolish,
- Willy nilly,
- unsuspecting,
- Ungarrisoned,
- beat,
- fatherless,
- missed,
- conquer,
- fortunate,
- defenceless,
- irretrievable,
- felled,
- infelicity,
- unsheltered,
- quell,
- waterlogged,
- subdue,
- out,
- compulsorily,
- tumbledown,
- out of joint,
- in dire straits,
- BROUGHT DOWN,
- hors de combat,
- baffled,
- shattered,
- tottering,
- vulnerable,
- shaky,
- Impuissant,
- befuddled,
- paralytic,
- Guardless,
- uncovered,
- unqualified,
- plain,
- unhappiness,
- desolation,
- trounce,
- distress,
- grief,
- stoned,
- unarmored,
- violently,
- hog-tied,
- threatened,
- vanquish,
- mystified,
- stiff,
- without help,
- disjointed,
- overwhelm,
- back,
- unhinged,
- struggling,
- top-heavy,
- simple,
- pain,
- blotto,
- unfavorable,
- awkward,
- unattended,
- devastate,
- out of gear,
- alarming,
- in difficulty,
- forcibly,
- humble,
- puzzled,
- mixed-up,
- done up,
- nonplussed,
- confounded,
- affliction,
- graveled,
- affect,
- bemused,
- enervate,
- urgently,
- imbecile,
- Aidless,
- undefended,
- brought low,
- overwhelmed,
- Guideless,
- consequentially,
- perforce,
- untenable,
- ruined,
- pity,
- ominous,
- hardship,
- outcast,
- unwise,
- disconcerted,
- Water-logged,
- untried,
- absurd,
- out cold,
- insecure,
- consequently,
- weaponless,
- unshielded,
- adversity,
- dazed,
- blessed,
- astray,
- pathos,
- sadness,
- poverty,
- mishap,
- Crumbling,
- reduced,
- talentless,
- demolish,
- floored,
- weaken,
- unnerve,
- misfortune,
- susceptible,
- unwarned,
- Sinewless,
- woe,
- Pregnable,
- agony,
- Unfriended,
- unsteady,
- witless,
- motherless,
- subjugate,
- bare-handed,
- anguish,
- harmless,
- wound,
- overpowered,
- unscreened,
- flummoxed,
- muddled,
- fear,
- necessarily,
- at sea,
- overbear,
- worthless,
- blank,
- emasculate,
- disoriented,
- leaderless,
- dolor,
- discomfited,
- paralysed,
- loser,
- confused,
- sensitive,
- bitterness,
- unwatched,
- silly,
- resourceless,
- bowled over,
- preoccupied,
- helplessly,
- Pithless,
- Marrowless,
- surmount.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
defenceless, defenseless, powerless.
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Proper noun, singular
powerless.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
desperate, disadvantaged, dispossessed, distraught, distressed, futile, harmless, homeless, hopeless, impoverished, incapable, indigent, ineffective, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, isolated, needless, needy, pointless, poor, susceptible, toothless, unable, unarmed, underprivileged, unprotected, useless, weak, worthless, Disarmed.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
destitute, distress, frustrated, helplessness, powerlessness, vulnerable.
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Adjective
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