Reverse Dictionary: HELPLESS

ADJECTIVES
► BABBISH weak, helpless, faint → .1876 Eng. dial.
► DAELESS helpless, feeble, useless → 1929 Sc.
► DAWKY helpless, idle → 1892 Eng. dial.
► DEEDLESS helpless, spiritless, inefficient → 1876 Eng. dial.  
► FECKLESS destitute of vigour, energy, or capacity; weak, helpless, useless → 1869
► HAVELESS without resources, shiftless, helpless; careless, slovenly → 1868 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HELPLESS AS A ONE-LEGGED MAN AT AN ASS-KICKING completely helpless → 1966 Amer. dial.
► INAIDIBLE helpless, that cannot be aided → a1616 obs.
► MATTERLESS incapable; incompetent; helpless; shiftless → 1794 Eng. dial.
► MAUNDERING listless; idle; helpless → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIRACULOUS clumsy, helpless → 1903 Sc.  (Bk.)
► NEEDLESS shiftless, helpless; unruly, heedless → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ON ONE’S ASS in financial or other ruin; helpless → c1917 Amer. sl.
► PARALYTIC deprived of the ability to act; helpless, powerless, or ineffective → 1642
► PIGGED helpless, bound hand and foot → 1949 Amer. dial.
► REDELESS helpless, unwilling to take advice → 1880 Eng. dial. obs.
► SACKLESS weak in mind or body; feeble, helpless; wanting in energy → 1768 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SILLY helpless, defenseless; esp. used of women and children → 1587 obs.
► SKY WEST AND CROOKED helpless, senseless → 1905 Amer. dial.
► SKY WESTERN CROOKED helpless, senseless → 1909 Amer. dial.
► SUCCOURLESS without help, helpless; without resources or means of subsistence; destitute → 1412-20 obs.
► THRUMMOCKING helpless → 1891 Eng. dial.
► TIDDLY very small; small and helpless → 1885 Eng. dial.
► UNDEEDY helpless, incapable → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UNHEPPEN out of place, unfitted for anything; helpless; unaided → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UP A GUMTREE left helpless → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► AVAL helplessness; a helpless condition → 1880 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ATICAST ► ATTIKAST one who through physical unfitness and general incapacity is thrust aside, rejected, and possibly ill-treated; a silly, helpless, odd sort of person → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BATIE-BRIM a useless bungler; a slowcoach; an inactive, helpless fellow → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► BATIE-BRIMMIL a useless bungler; a slowcoach; an inactive, helpless fellow → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► BATIE-BUMMIL an inactive helpless fellow; a useless bungler; a simpleton; a fool→ a1550 Sc. obs.
► BEDRAL ► BEDREL a bedridden person; a helpless cripple → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CAITIFF a cripple, one who is deformed and helpless → 1775 Eng. dial. obs.
► CANDY-ASS a coward; a timid and helpless person → M20 US sl.
► DA-DILLY a helpless, useless person → 1880 Sc. & Ireland
► DAWK a helpless, idle woman → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DAWKY a helpless, silly woman → 1874 Eng. dial.
► GAWDELPUS ► GAWD-HELP-US a helpless, irritating, or exasperating person → 1912 jocular usage
► LUMP OF BUTTER an easygoing, helpless person → 1844 Sc.
► SACKLESS a weak, senseless person; a helpless, clumsy fellow → 1778 Eng. dial.
► WASH-OUT a helpless or inefficient person → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)

PHRASES
► ALL-A-LIVING-ALONE of a sick person: left in a helpless situation → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HORNS SAWED OFF said of one made helpless, to take the fight out of one → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)

VERBS
► CADDYPILLER ► CATERPILLAR ► CATTERPILLAR to plague, to torment; to make helpless → 1790 Eng. dial.
► CAUSE THE EYES TO STAND BACKWATER IN ONE’S HEAD to reduce an antagonist to helplessness → 1866 Sc. 
► MAUNDER to wander about in a confused, aimless, or melancholy fashion; to miss one’s way; to walk unsteadily; to act in a helpless, imbecile manner → 1819 Eng. dial.
► PALSY to render powerless, helpless, or inert → 1615