different between helpless vs forgotten

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)

1. 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

2. Lacking help; powerless.
3. Unable to act without help; needing help; feeble.
4. Uncontrollable.

   a helpless urge

5. (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.

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.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /f????t.n?/

  (New England) IPA^(key): /f????t.n?/, /f????t.n?/

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f????t.n?/
• ,
• Rhymes: -?t?n
• Hyphenation: for?got?ten

Adjective

forgotten (comparative more forgotten, superlative most forgotten)

1. Of which knowledge has been lost; which is no longer remembered.

Translations

Verb

forgotten

1. past participle of forget

Noun

forgotten (plural forgottens)

1. A person or thing that has been forgotten.