Help"less, a.
1.
Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.
How shall I then your helpless fame defend?
Pope.
2.
Beyond help; irremediable.
Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body.
Milton.
3.
Bringing no help; unaiding.
[Obs.]
Yet since the gods have been
Helpless foreseers of my plagues.
Chapman.
4.
Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.
[R.]
Helpless of all that human wants require.
Dryden.
-- Help"less*ly, adv. -- Help"less*ness, n.
© Webster 1913.