Usually means: Unable to manage without assistance.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word helpless:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. helpless: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. helpless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. helpless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. helpless: Collins English Dictionary
  5. helpless: Vocabulary.com
  6. Helpless, helpless: Wordnik
  7. helpless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. helpless: Wiktionary
  9. helpless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. helpless: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. helpless: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Helpless, helpless: Dictionary.com
  13. helpless: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Helpless (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Helpless (Hamilton song), Helpless (Life on Mars), Helpless (The Flirts song), Helpless (You Took My Love), Helpless (song), Helpless: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Helpless: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. helpless: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. helpless: Rhymezone
  18. helpless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. helpless: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. helpless: Free Dictionary
  21. helpless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. helpless: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. helpless: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. helpless: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See helplessly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Unable to defend oneself.
adjective:  Lacking help; powerless.
adjective:  Unable to act without help; needing help; feeble.
adjective:  Uncontrollable.
adjective:  (obsolete) From which there is no possibility of being saved.

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