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1. helplessly
adverb. ['ˈhɛlpləsli'] in a helpless manner.
Synonyms
Etymology
- -ly (English)
- -lice (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
- helpless (English)
- helples (Middle English (1100-1500))
Rhymes with Helplessly
- adversely
- aimlessly
- ambitiously
- anonymously
- anxiously
- assiduously
- autonomously
- breathlessly
- callously
- capriciously
- carelessly
- cautiously
- ceaselessly
- closely
- concisely
- conscientiously
- consciously
- conspicuously
- contemporaneously
- contemptuously
Sentences with helplessly
1. Adverb
Accidentally dropping the tank lid to your toilet and helplessly watching as it cracks in half is frustrating.
Quotes about helplessly
1. Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
- Joyce Carol Oates
2. It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
