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1
lacking protection from danger or resistance against attack
- after the storm we found a helpless baby bird that had fallen out of its nest
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2
unable to act or achieve one's purpose
- we watched, feeling helpless, as the vase slipped from her hand and crashed to the floor
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- authoritarian,
- autocratic
- (also autocratical),
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- magisterial,
- tyrannical
- (also tyrannic)
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