defencelessadjective
UK US defenseless uk/dɪˈfens.ləs/us/dɪˈfens.ləs/Defenceless people, animals, places, or things are weak and unable to protect themselves from attack:
a small defenceless child
a defenceless city
They were defenceless against the enemy bombs.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- man of straw
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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defencelessness
noun [ U ] US defenselessness uk/dɪˈfens.ləs.nəs/us/dɪˈfens.ləs.nəs/