Helpless vs Listless - What's the difference?
helpless | listless |
Unable to defend oneself or to act without help.
* 1995 , (Bryan Adams),
Uncontrollable.
Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
* 1818 , , Frankenstein , ch. 18:
* 1861 , , The Stokesley Secret , ch. 6:
* 1901 , , The Hero , ch. 21:
* 2005 Nov. 29, Aryn Baker, "
As adjectives the difference between helpless and listless
is that helpless is unable to defend oneself or to act without help while listless is lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.helpless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Then when you find yourself lyin' helpless in her arms
- You know you really love a woman
External links
* *listless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless .
- What an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time. . . . Poor, listless , stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs and crossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!
- The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.
John Hardy: Bali Guy," Time :
- “Listless , inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”