Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Helpless

Helpless , adjective

1.
Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.
How shall I then your helpless fame defend? — Pope
2.
Beyond help; irremediable.
Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body. — Milton
3.
Bringing no help; unaiding. [Obsolete]
Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues. — Chapman
4.
Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of. [Rare]
Helpless of all that human wants require. — Dryden