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Lacking sufficient power or strength

Lacking physical strength, especially as a result of age or illness

Lacking any form of defense

Unable or insufficient to produce any effect or result

Oppressed, persecuted or subjugated

Landless or dispossessed

Relating to paralysis

Completely overcome or helpless, especially with distress or exhaustion

Not able or likely to cause harm

Feeling, deserving of, or characterized by, severe unhappiness or sadness

Having no legal or binding force

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Adjective

Lacking sufficient power or strength

disenfranchised

counterproductive

not good enough

disadvantageous

lacking feeling

lacking ability

not up to scratch

not up to snuff

no great shakes

leaving much to be desired

chicken-hearted

hemming and hawing

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“He feels helpless and powerless to do anything to change things for the better.”

Adjective

Lacking physical strength, especially as a result of age or illness

long in the tooth

in declining health

no spring chicken

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Lacking any form of defense

like a sitting duck

in line of fire

like a clay pigeon

without weapons

in the line of fire

without defences

defenceless against

an easy target for

without resources

in difficulties

without assistance

easily destroyed

up creek without paddle

with hands tied

at the mercy of

exposed to risk

easily affected by

without protection

in the firing line

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Adjective

Unable or insufficient to produce any effect or result

without success

in vicious circle

counterproductive

inconsequential

save one's breath

good-for-nothing

not worth the candle

of no earthly use

lacking foundation

without grounds

without foundation

without rhyme or reason

no good to gundy

not having a prayer

with no chance of success

nickel-and-dime

not worth a hill of beans

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Adjective

Oppressed, persecuted or subjugated

underprivileged

in one's clutches

in one's pocket

under one's thumb

led by the nose

at one's beck and call

physically abused

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Landless or dispossessed

Adjective

Relating to paralysis

out of commission

learning-disabled

wheelchair-using

differently abled

out-of-commission

having a mental disability

physically handicapped

having special needs

physically challenged

having a disability

physically impaired

having learning difficulties

with a disability

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Adjective

Completely overcome or helpless, especially with distress or exhaustion

knocked for six

brought to your knees

Adjective

Not able or likely to cause harm

unobjectionable

uncontroversial

not life-threatening

well-intentioned

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Adjective

Feeling, deserving of, or characterized by, severe unhappiness or sadness

down in the mouth

down in the dumps

in the doldrums

sick as a parrot

as sick as a parrot

singing the blues

heavy with grief

discombobulated

overcome with sorrow

down-in-the-mouth

racked with suffering

racked with pain

sorry for oneself

prostrate with grief

demoralizing^US

demoralising^UK

unable to be comforted

unable to be consoled

beside oneself with grief

heart-wrenching

conscience-stricken

ill-humoured^UK

sorry for yourself

with a long face

bundle of nerves

looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny

at the end of one's tether

at one's wits' end

discountenanced

at end of one's rope

at the end of your tether

on the verge of tears

lacking in confidence

lacking in enthusiasm

having lost heart

in floods of tears

with tears in your eyes

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Adjective

Having no legal or binding force

no longer current

no longer topical

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