different between friendless vs helpless
friendless
English
Etymology
From Middle English frendles, from Old English fr?ondl?as; equivalent to friend +? -less.
Adjective
friendless (not comparable)
- Without friends (without a friend).
- The friendless girl cries frequently.
Antonyms
- enemyless
Derived terms
- friendlessly
- friendlessness
Translations
See also
- enemylessness
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helpless
English
Etymology
From Middle English helples, from Old English *helpl?as (“helpless”) from Proto-Germanic *help?lausaz, equivalent to help +? -less. Compare Dutch hulpeloos (“helpless”), German hilflos (“helpless”), Swedish hjälplös (“helpless”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?lpl?s/
- Hyphenation: help?less
Adjective
helpless (comparative more helpless, superlative most helpless)
- Unable to defend oneself.
- 1995, Bryan Adams, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?
- Then when you find yourself lyin' helpless in her arms
- You know you really love a woman
- 1995, Bryan Adams, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?
- Lacking help; powerless.
- Unable to act without help; needing help; feeble.
- Uncontrollable.
- a helpless urge
- (obsolete) From which there is no possibility of being saved.
- For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes,
They on the rock are rent and sunck in helplesse wawes.
- For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes,
Derived terms
- helplessly
- helplessness
Translations
Further reading
- helpless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- helpless in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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