Describing Wordsfor Helplessness

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Here are some adjectives for helplessness: little but abject, mental, moral, blank, piteous, other and consequent, sarcastic calm, feeble and vicious, graceful rollicking, tragical financial, horribly unprotected, extraordinary, appealing, trusting and happy, abject and almost hopeless, extraordinary limp, naive blind, appealing feminine, utter childish, utter childlike, terrifying primitive, previous industrial, empty-handed, naked, familiar, distasteful, unarmed native, stolid, inert, despairing, appealing, comparative physical, administrative and governmental, blank, dreadful, same shifty, own utter, terrible, grievous. You can get the definitions of these helplessness adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to helplessness (and find more here).

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Words to Describe helplessness

Below is a list of describing words for helplessness. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe helplessness:

little but abject mental, moral blank, piteous other and consequent sarcastic calm feeble and vicious graceful rollicking tragical financial horribly unprotected extraordinary, appealing trusting and happy abject and almost hopeless extraordinary limp naive blind appealing feminine utter childish utter childlike terrifying primitive previous industrial empty-handed, naked familiar, distasteful unarmed native stolid, inert despairing, appealing
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comparative physical administrative and governmental blank, dreadful same shifty own utter terrible, grievous sudden panic-stricken awful, wretched utter economic terrible mute social political piteous, appealing pleasant cheerful greatest sexual resultant social simple feminine same inarticulate pathetic and appealing general and utter peculiar, horrible pathetic, childlike thy sorry recent sudden stupid, vacant blind and feeble same inexpressible mere soft utter sheer childish peculiar whimsical almost lethargic governmental and administrative utter physical utter hopeless greater physical complete, utter dull and angry entire intellectual own equal pure male innocent, ignorant own complete sheer nervous pink, soft graceful, languid almost infantile utter, utter such pathetic middle-aged female such agonizing uncomforted certain graceful certain appealing such utter certain pathetic perfect social single individual big, hulking strange and pathetic sudden loud abject own comparative utter and absolute almost abject voluntary or involuntary moral and legal frank, boyish infinitely pathetic own entire certain timid humorless more dull absolute physical frustrated complete physical such desolate such idiotic same stupid utterly insignificant thy childish childlike appealing own extreme mere childish same blind comparatively long great pink spiritual and political own wretched empty-handed merely external own perfect own relative natural and spiritual mannered almost childish piteous such surprising such tragic almost ludicrous whole miserable strange mental almost utter despairing hard-edged same mental own bitter own apparent pathetic great hulking dazed feigned certain mental complete and utter absolute own blind reedy sweet and gentle physical apparent mute pre-eminent childish grueling comparative sheer anguished point-blank such complete almost hopeless infantile seeming rubicund pitiable great physical prostrate complete total numb inane passive galling masculine unprotected pitiful evident almost childlike hopeless tragic dumb life-long perturbed strange and mysterious blank indecisive impotent plaintive flat-out soft pink speechless conscious almost absolute fetal heady wide-eyed winsome maddening inexpressible limp shifty appalling own poor nerveless profoundest orphan vitriolic mock ignominious wrathful bereft angry blind feminine almost total uncharacteristic hesitant governmental almost complete unaided depressed more obvious humiliating economic thrilling ineffective exasperated desperate consequent culpable thine own resentful such absolute languorous mental wistful lethargic ludicrous inert hysterical blissful moral whimsical torpid pained somnolent awkward almost universal administrative amusing financial senile psychotic pessimistic bitter forlorn degraded good-natured hulking agonizing extreme relative enraged drunken naked innocent impatient maudlin leaden essential panic-stricken miscellaneous partial feeble inquiring humorous intellectual pampered defenseless built-in momentary meek miserable weary ineffectual mere physical trusting present submissive puerile apologetic unarmed moody heartbreaking convulsive inarticulate rollicking brutish surprising unconscious painstaking lifelong mournful mechanical silent profound homeless temporary despondent infuriating purest scented perfect well-meaning listless sudden dependent evangelical prone fragile comical widespread obvious sick ignorant comic irresponsible wan unexplained spiritual incurable unbelievable uninteresting female human furious degrading fundamental numbing unsatisfactory undeniable graceful wretched avowed sickening dreary feverish equal peculiar puny timid vulnerable inimitable fierce conversational sarcastic voluntary distasteful weak terrible diseased political hollow mutual resultant querulous sweet individual fearful material genteel sexual squalid overwhelming deplorable grievous tremulous dreamy frantic servile warmer girlish heroic long-term stubborn embarrassing stolid imperious primal deepest horrible respectful newborn selfish idiotic jovial inexplicable innate dreadful microscopic calm reckless nude exquisite indescribable languid gifted stupid impending horrific gentle baffling refined personal frank natural notorious general suicidal awful frail morbid chronic annoying final wrinkled doleful baleful perplexed rebellious prospective exact entire urgent counterfeit startling stony involuntary overpowering odious shrill dainty loud misty intense gross eager greedy rigid verbal exceptional passionate positive much more lazy troubled ultimate delicious distressed insane unfamiliar civilized unjust charming furtive oppressive stark extraordinary pleasing gilded greatest egyptian pure stiff curious devastating poor old deliberate hideous uncouth criminal sorry paternal mere digital polite amiable barren sullen probable savage frenzied foolish unspeakable adorable historic vague strange nervous naive drowsy mortal military restless unhappy wonderful social more and more primitive soft grotesque raw industrial legal public careless elegant certain intolerable idiot pink former transparent boyish familiar placid absurd weird vacant unusual incredible cruel vicious recent eternal inner gloomy imaginary fantastic international immediate permanent external cheerful psychological precious genuine desolate ornamental characteristic perpetual late conspicuous actual insignificant ferocious unique quaint utmost mild male triumphant quiet sufficient fatal double flat faint true royal odd random huge brief anxious dull queer divine humble dim lowest immense universal emotional brave able harmless spanish official warm sad initial honest dangerous happy medical fat native long common delicate ancient alien big clear occasional deep broad full mighty previous usual poor original wild dark mysterious empty little similar heavy whole beautiful vast black past other simple more

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Words to Describe helplessness

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "helplessness" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "helplessness" are: little but abject, mental, moral, blank, piteous, other and consequent, and sarcastic calm. There are 617 other words to describe helplessness listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe helplessness suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "helplessness" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many helplessness adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is helplessness?

Describing Words

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.

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