What's the difference between helmless and helpless?
Helmless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of a helmet.
(a.) Without a helm or rudder.
Example Sentences:
Helpless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.
(a.) Beyond help; irremediable.
(a.) Bringing no help; unaiding.
(a.) Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two groups had one thing in common: the casualties' mostly deliberate posttraumatic reaction; there were only 3 patients in a state of helplessness.
(2) For now, the overriding feeling is helplessness, tinged with shame for the last year of passivity.
(3) Five needs were reported by more than 30% of the sample as not being met: 1) being able to talk about fears of the future, illness, or death; 2) being occupied and having things to do; 3) having up-to-date information about HIV; 4) having someone to help them with their feelings of depression, helplessness, anxiety, or anger; and 5) help for the patient's family.
(4) A rating of helplessness shown in the past just before onset of a prior depressive episode suggested a similar raised rate compared to those never depressed.
(5) It is an excruciating fly-on-the-wall witness to Allison's vainglory, Swales's self-regard for his own leadership qualities and the poor young players' overpromoted helplessness.
(6) Fibromyalgia patients reported significantly higher levels of learned helplessness, assessed according to a rheumatology attitudes index (RAI), than patients with all other diseases, and scleroderma patients showed significantly lower RAI scores (P less than 0.05).
(7) The results showed that both drug treatments blocked the deficit in the escape learning (helplessness effect).
(8) Other contributing factors include the high level of helplessness of human infants, the resulting high attachment needs, and the prolongation of development phases.
(9) Results demonstrated that action orientation was associated with self-immunizing cognitions during helplessness training.
(10) The average Eritrean is now “a helpless victim”, he says.
(11) The results demonstrate that patients classified as low helpless were distinct from those classified as normal.
(12) One chronically discomposed self-structure, defining itself as polluted and helpless, trembles with the appalling imagery of historical and imminent community disasters.
(13) In statements, prisoners later described their feeling of helplessness, of being cut off from the rest of the world in a place where there was no law and no rules.
(14) Your feelings of guilt and helplessness may be difficult to deal with, but you may not be what is needed right now.
(15) Limited opportunities for exercising self-control while incarcerated may encourage helplessness.
(16) It is this sense of being helpless, of being forgotten, of having the social settlement recast in ways that takes away while offering nothing in return, and, above all, of not being heard that so inflames not just students but huge swaths of the British.
(17) Instead of feeling helpless, you feel positive and think ‘Well, I made a difference last weekend, sealing up that draughty room.’ There is a wave of change building and people doing things slowly influences governments and companies too.
(18) The validity of the RAI was established in comparisons to the Arthritis Helplessness Index.
(19) We investigated the relationship between changes in helplessness and depression to disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
(20) Infants which are born naked, blind and helpless elicit retrieving and nest building and are cleaned and cared for by the female.