Definitions for Helplessly
help·less·ly

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. helplessly, impotently, unable to helpadverb

   in a helpless manner

   "the crowd watched him helplessly"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. helplesslyadverb

   Without protection or assistance.

   The fish flopped helplessly in the tiny remaining pool.

2. helplesslyadverb

   Without the ability to help oneself.

   The rolled on the floor laughing helplessly.

3. helplesslyadverb

   Without the ability to react actively.

   The spectators gaped helplessly as the balloon approached the power lines.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Helplesslyadverb

   Without succour; without ability.

   Etymology: from helpless.

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1. helplessly

   Helplessly refers to the state or condition of being unable to do anything or act effectively to change or prevent a certain situation. It describes a condition of being powerless or lacking control.

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Helplessly in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Helplessly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Helplessly in a Sentence

1. Jane E. Brody:

   Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

2. Choi Yeong-chun:

   She cursed me, telling me ‘You should have stayed in North Korea. Why did you come here and bump into me?‘ it deeply hurt me. I couldn’t show my temper because I was hurt too much ... I just stood helplessly and I didn’t go to school for a week.

3. Peter Maurer:

   It failed as a humanitarian organization because it had lost its moral compass, it failed... by responding to the outrageous with standard procedures, it looked on helplessly and silently...

4. John Berger:

   Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

5. James Baldwin:

   We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Helplessly
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Helplessly
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Helplessly
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com