Không tự lo liệu được, không tự lực được

a helpless invalid

một người tàn phế không tự lực được

Không được sự giúp đỡ; không nơi nương tựa, bơ vơ

a helpless child

một em bé không nơi nương tựa

Adj.

Dependent, vulnerable, weak, helpless, feeble, infirm,lame, crippled, disabled: The disease has left him completelyhelpless.

Confused, baffled, mystified, bewildered,perplexed, at sea, confounded, muddled, nonplussed: I amcompletely helpless when it comes to balancing my accounts.

Weakened, weak, debilitated, faint, enfeebled, feeble, worn out,spent, exhausted, prostrate, enervated: All of us were simplyhelpless from laughing so much.

Worthless, incapable,incompetent, useless, unavailing, inefficient, inept, unfit,unqualified: Dali was said to be helpless without Gala tomanage his affairs.

Adj.

Lacking help or protection; defenceless.

Unable toact without help.

Helplessly adv. helplessness n.