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DEFENSELESS

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Main Entry: defenseless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: powerless, vulnerable

Synonyms:

caught, endangered, exposed, hands tied, helpless, in line of fire, indefensible, like a clay pigeon, like a sitting duck, naked*, on the line, on the spot, open, out on limb, pigeon, poor, unarmed, unguarded, unprotected, up the creek, weak, wide open

Antonyms:

powerful, strong
Main Entry: dependent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: weak, helpless

Synonyms:

abased, clinging, counting on, debased, defenseless, humbled, immature, indigent, inferior, lesser, minor, poor, reliant, relying on, secondary, subordinate, tied to apron strings, under, under thumb, unsustaining, vulnerable

Antonyms:

independent, mature, strong, unreliant
Main Entry: forlorn
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless, inconsolable

Synonyms:

abandoned, alone, bereft, blue*, cheerless, comfortless, cynical, defenseless, depressed, deserted, desolate, despairing, desperate, despondent, destitute, destroyed, disconsolate, down and out, dragging, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, futile, godforsaken, helpless, homeless, in the dumps, lonely, lonesome, lost, miserable, oppressed, pathetic, pessimistic, pitiable, pitiful, solitary, tragic, unhappy, vain, weighed down, woebegone, wretched
Notes: lonely adds to solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship, while lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness; forlorn and desolate are even more isolated and sad

Antonyms:

cheerful, comforted, consolable, happy, hopeful, joyful, pleased
Main Entry: helpless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: incapable, incompetent; vulnerable

Synonyms:

abandoned, basket-case, debilitated, defenseless, dependent, destitute, disabled, exposed, feeble, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, handcuffed, impotent, inefficient, inexpert, infirm, invalid, over a barrel, paralyzed, pinned, powerless, prostrate, shiftless, tapped, tapped out, unable, unfit, unprotected, up creek without paddle, weak, with hands tied

Antonyms:

able, capable, competent, enterprising, independent, resourceful, skilled, strong
Main Entry: insecure
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dangerous, precarious

Synonyms:

defenseless, exposed, fluctuant, frail, hazardous, immature, insubstantial, loose, open to attack, perilous, rickety, rocky, rootless, shaky, unguarded, unprotected, unreliable, unsafe, unshielded, unsound, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vulnerable, wavering, weak, wobbly

Antonyms:

guarded, protected, safe, secure, sound
Main Entry: naked
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without covering

Synonyms:

au naturel, bald, bare, bare-skinned, bared, barren, defenseless, denuded, disrobed, divested, exposed, helpless, in birthday suit, in dishabille, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, leafless, natural, nude, open, peeled, raw, stark-naked, stripped, threadbare, unclad, unclothed, unconcealed, uncovered, undraped, undressed, unprotected, unveiled, vulnerable, without a stitch

Antonyms:

clothed
Main Entry: powerless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: weak; unable

Synonyms:

blank, chicken*, debilitated, defenseless, dependent, disabled, disenfranchised, etiolated, feeble, frail, gutless, helpless, impotent, incapable, incapacitated, ineffective, ineffectual, inert, infirm, out of gas, paralyzed, passive, prostrate, subject, supine, tied, unarmed, unfit, vulnerable, wimp*, wishy-washy

Antonyms:

able, dominant, potent, powerful, strong
Main Entry: prostrate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: helpless

Synonyms:

beaten, defenseless, disarmed, impotent, open, overcome, overpowered, overwhelmed, paralyzed, powerless, reduced, weak

Antonyms:

happy, self-sufficient, strong, successful
Main Entry: vulnerable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: open to attack

Synonyms:

accessible, assailable, defenseless, exposed, liable, naked, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, ready, sensitive, sitting duck, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, weak, wide open

Antonyms:

closed, guarded, protected, safe, secure
Main Entry: weak
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exposed, vulnerable

Synonyms:

accessible, assailable, defenseless, helpless, indefensible, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, untenable, wide-open, woundable

Antonyms:

guarded, protected, safe, secure
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