helpless

adj

1. weak, faint, feeble, infirm. Rare. imbecile; dependant, invalid, disabled, lame, crippled, hobbled, prostrate, laid-up, flat on one's back, laid-out, paralyzed, palsied, incurable; exhausted, debilitated, enervated, devitalized, worn-out, effete, spent, at the end of one's rope or tether, Sl. wasted, Sl. blown away.

2. outcast, abandoned, forsaken, exposed, deserted, neglected, done for; alone, forlorn, naked, desolate, destitute, adrift, guideless, friendless, fatherless, defenseless, resourceless, aidless, unaided.

3. impotent, powerless, strengthless, weaponless; unmanned, unnerved, unarmed; vulnerable, on the ropes, pregnable, expugnable, vincible, conquerable, unguarded, unprotected, unsupported, unfortified, open to attack, over a barrel.

4. confused, confounded, perplexed, bewildered, befuddled, baffled, mystified, nonplused, buffaloed, uncertain, at a loss, at sea, at the end of one's wits.

5. useless, worthless, inadequate, insufficient, inapt; incapable, incompetent, inept, inefficient, unendowed, unqualified, unfit; shiftless, irresponsible, unresource-ful, without initiative; spineless, without backbone, sinewless; inane, fatuous, empty, barren, sterile.