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Ailing vs Helpless - What's the difference?

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Ailing is a related term of helpless.


As adjectives the difference between ailing and helpless

is that ailing is sickly; sick; ill; unwell while helpless is unable to defend oneself or to act without help.

As a noun ailing

is an ailment.

As a verb ailing

is .

ailing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An ailment.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

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    helpless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unable to defend oneself or to act without help.
  • * 1995 , (Bryan Adams),
    • Then when you find yourself lyin' helpless in her arms
    You know you really love a woman
  • Uncontrollable.

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