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So thoroughly stuck that even your options have given up.
means Unable to defend yourself or fix a situation, lacking the power or means to act.
from Old English from 'help' plus the Norse-flavored suffix '-less', literally 'without help' — a word built by subtraction since the 1300s.
False symmetryHelpless exists; 'helpful's opposite isn't 'unhelpful' alone.
Learned versionPsychology's 'learned helplessness' came from 1960s dog experiments.
Babies qualifyHuman newborns are biology's most helpless mammals.