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What are the hypernyms for Helplessly?
A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
Other hypernyms:
defenseless, disadvantaged, hopeless, impotent, inadequate, incapacitated, indifferent, ineffective, inept, inoperative, powerless, vulnerable.
Usage examples for Helplessly
The Judge gurgled as helplessly as the children did, blushed, tried to save the situation, and looked exceedingly severe.
"The Locusts' Years"
He raged helplessly against the truth of her words.
"The Locusts' Years"
Kent stared at her helplessly.
"Lonesome Land"
Famous quotes with Helplessly
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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.
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In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.
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It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
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As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.
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Related words: helpless, hopeless, unhelpful, unhelpful advice, helplessness, help, hopeless people, unhelpful people, unhelpful advice
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