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Word entry · 8 letters

helpless

Best crossword clue

"Without aid"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɛlplɪs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted eehllpssStarts with HEnds with S1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. unable to manage independently

Word origin

From Middle English helples, from Old English *helplēas (“helpless”) from Proto-Germanic *helpōlausaz, equivalent to help + -less. Compare Dutch hulpeloos (“helpless”), German hilflos (“helpless”), Danish hjælpeløs (“helpless”) and Swedish hjälplös (“helpless”).

Used in a sentence

  • Then when you find yourself lyin' helpless in her arms You know you really love a woman
  • Rana Thanoptis: Are we good? Can I go? Shepard: You conducted brutal experiments on helpless test subjects. You helped Saren. You don't get to live.
  • A gaoler struck him, pushing him back in place in the hopeless, helpless line of prisoners.

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