(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.
Hopeless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
(a.) Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
(a.) Unhoped for; despaired of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its experiments are so hopelessly flawed that the results are meaningless."
(2) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
(3) Rather than ruthlessly efficient, I have found them sweet and a bit hopeless."
(4) Alcohol and drugs are influential in providing a feeling of hopelessness by their toxic effects, by disruption of interpersonal relationships and social supports, and, possibly, by manipulating neurotransmitters responsible for mood and judgment.
(5) The authors document the first 19 months of a service dedicated to the care of hopelessly ill patients in a teaching hospital.
(6) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
(7) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
(8) It’s all very well for Hopeless to make fun of me saying Brexit means Brexit,” said Hapless, haplessly.
(9) Meanwhile, the dance music that sells in any quantity is just hopeless.
(10) Both depression and hopelessness were sensitive to changes in suicide risk during the one-month follow-up.
(11) Many aspects of the theory's descriptive claims about depressive thinking have been substantiated empirically, including (a) increased negativity of cognitions about the self, (b) increased hopelessness, (c) specificity of themes of loss to depressive syndromes rather than psychopathology in general, and (d) mood-congruent recall.
(12) In addition, the paper presents the author's experience with human vitreous transplantation by the 'open sky' transcorneal technique for otherwise hopeless vitreous opacities.
(13) The relationship between depression and suicide disappears when hopelessness is taken into account.
(14) The performance of controls and DST escapers was related to depth of semantic processing, whereas performance of DST suppressors varied inversely with degree of felt hopelessness.
(15) The question of vulnerability to DSH is discussed as well as the possibility of using measures of hopelessness and intropunitive hostility to identify those at greater risk of repetition.
(16) But the Labour leader has only himself to blame because of his hopelessly woolly response to a question on this in his BBC interview on Monday.
(17) "It was a certain kind of titillation the shop offered," the critic Matthew Collings has written, "sexual but also hopeless, destructive, foolish, funny, sad."
(18) Shinji Kagawa could not make any real difference and Marouane Fellaini continues to look hopelessly out of his depth.
(19) Anhedonia, diurnal variation, hopelessness, psychomotor retardation, and delusions increased with age; depressed appearance, low self-esteem, and somatic complaints decreased with age.
(20) Four cases received no treatment but were recalled, and twelve perforations showed a size and location hopeless for repair; the teeth were therefore extracted.