Hēlp'less, a.
a. 1. Destitute of help or strength; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless babe. How shall I then your helpless fame defend? Pope.
Sense 2. Beyond help; irremediable. “Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body.” Milton.
Sense 3. Bringing no help. Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues. Chapman.
Sense 4. Unsupplied; destitute. [Rare.] Helpless of all that human wants require. Dryden.