different between helpless vs disabled
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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disabled
English
Etymology
From disable +? -ed.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): [d?s?e?b??d]
Adjective
disabled (comparative more disabled, superlative most disabled)
- Made incapable of use or action.
- 1911, "From Brittania Lodge, No. 361", Railway Carmen's Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, March 1911, page 129:
- In the car department we would repair cars that were disabled and placed in bad order by a bunch of scalies taking the place of striking switchmen, engineers, Firemen, etc.
- 1911, "From Brittania Lodge, No. 361", Railway Carmen's Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, March 1911, page 129:
- Having a disability.
- (law) Legally disqualified.
Synonyms
- incapacitated
- indisposed
- invalid
Antonyms
- enabled
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
disabled (usually uncountable, plural disableds)
- One who is disabled. (often used collectively as the disabled, but sometimes also singular)
Translations
Verb
disabled
- simple past tense and past participle of disable
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