Synonyms for Helpless:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • helpless,
  • incapacitated,
  • lost.
  •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.
  •defenseless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •disabled (adjective)
  • 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.
  •downtrodden (adjective)
  • 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.
  •feeble (adjective)
  • 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.
  •forlorn (adjective)
  • 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.
  •helpless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •impotent (adjective)
  • gutless,
  • Infecund,
  • dud,
  • sterile,
  • paper tiger,
  • unfruitful,
  • crippled,
  • forceless,
  • nerveless,
  • unproductive,
  • barren.
  •incapacitated (adjective)
  • out of commission,
  • immobilized,
  • impaired,
  • bedridden.
  •incompetent (adjective)
  • 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.
  •naked (adjective)
  • 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.
  •oppressed (adjective)
  • more enslaved,
  • more tormented,
  • enslaved,
  • most abused,
  • most tormented,
  • most enslaved,
  • more abused.
  •palsied (adjective)
  • neurasthenic,
  • rheumatic,
  • arthritic,
  • sclerotic,
  • tremorous,
  • spastic,
  • atonic.
  •paralyzed (adjective)
  • un-moving,
  • be numbed,
  • un moving,
  • be-numbed,
  • in-active.
  •powerless (adjective)
  • dis-enfranchised,
  • wishy washy,
  • de-pendent,
  • most disenfranchised,
  • wishywashy,
  • wimper,
  • de pendent,
  • dis enfranchised,
  • more disenfranchised,
  • wimpest,
  • wimp.
  •stranded (adjective)
  • run aground,
  • out in left field,
  • left in the lurch,
  • on the rocks,
  • passed up,
  • left at the altar,
  • cast away.
  •unable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unprotected (adjective)
  • in the line of fire.
  •weak (adjective)
  • Woundable,
  • weakest.

• n.

  •
  • burning,
  • deep,
  • affective,
  • casual,
  • bitter,
  • blind,
  • acutely,
  • deep-seated,
  • basic,
  • depth.
  •
  • someone couldn't do something if they tried,
  • amateur,
  • safety,
  • awful,
  • no-good.
  •
  • help.
  •dependent (noun)
  • invalid.
  •helpless (noun)
  • hopeless.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • ineffective,
  • inexpert,
  • unemployable,
  • inept,
  • amateurish,
  • abandoned,
  • maladroit,
  • ill-prepared,
  • ill-equipped.
  •
  • ragged,
  • impractical,
  • impotent,
  • unskilled,
  • rusty,
  • poor,
  • unprotected,
  • unfit.
  •
  • unequal.
  •
  • incapable,
  • ineffectual,
  • inadequate,
  • badly.
  •
  • bad.
  •awkward
  • embarrassing.
  •downhearted
  • wit.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Helpless:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    defenceless, defenseless, powerless.
  • Proper noun, singular
    powerless.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    useless, harmless, unprotected, hopeless, unarmed, desperate, distressed, disadvantaged, impoverished, pointless, incapable, toothless, ineffective, worthless, underprivileged, homeless, inoffensive, isolated, Disarmed, indigent, poor, susceptible, innocuous, distraught, futile, unable, dispossessed, innocent, needy, needless, weak.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    helplessness, powerlessness, destitute, vulnerable, distress, frustrated.

Antonyms for Helpless:

• adj.

  • clumsy
    clever, couth, expert, coordinated, agile, adroit, dexterous, graceful, athletic.
  • defenseless
    powerful.
  • disabled
    healthy.
  • downtrodden
    happy, respected, satisfied.
  • feeble
    sound, effective, solid, hardy, hearty.
  • forlorn
    consolable, pleased, joyful, hopeful, comforted, cheerful.
  • helpless
    enterprising, capable, able, strong, independent, competent, skilled, resourceful.
  • hopeless
    expectant, bright, auspicious, rosy, optimistic, encouraging, propitious, promising.
  • impotent
    fertile, potent, productive.
  • Other antonyms:
    high-level, magisterial, autocratic, protected, dynamic, despotic, shielded, dominant, safe, sturdy, guarded, unassailable, energetic, dictatorial, immune, vigorous, top, resistant, robust, omnipotent, sheltered, armed, senior, covered, efficient, major, armored, tyrannical, secure, tough, authoritarian, fortified, impenetrable.