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беспомощный adj.stresses
gen. helpless; shiftless; feckless; aidless; clueless; haveless; succourless; impotent; silly; hamstrung (Unka77); in the toils (в трудном положении, в беде); stranded (Albonda); ineffectual; destitute; callow (MichaelBurov); inept (в какой-то области alikssepia); resistless; supportless; unassisted; unbacked; utterly without merit; hopeless
Gruzovik forlorn
context. vulnerable (Abysslooker)
disappr. inept (having or showing no skill; clumsy: Truss is way way out of her depth. She is worse than useless. I have no doubts they completely dismiss anything she says, and even their old asset Bunter is proving completely inept. -- продемонстрировал свою полную беспомощность reddit.com ART Vancouver)
econ. powerless
Gruzovik, fig. feeble; effete
idiom. couldn't organise a fart in a baked bean factory (SirReal)
inf. numpty (andriy f); bumbling (george serebryakov)
Makarov. thin; under the cosh
obs. redressless; reliefless; succorless; unaidable; unhelped; unstrengthened
poetic assistless
slang skywest
беспомощно adv.
gen. blankly; helplessly; impotently (It irritated him to have to sit impotently in silence. OALD. • We could only watch impotently [=helplessly] as the fire consumed our home. MWLAD Alexander Demidov); shiftlessly (Anglophile)
Gruzovik without help
context. unhelpfully (he stood by unhelpfully while the house burned down Antondyakov)
inf. in over one's head
slang in over one's head
беспомощный: 71 phrases in 17 subjects
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