defenseless Definition
de·fense·less (---lis)
adjective
lacking defense; unable to defend oneself; open to attack; helpless; unprotected
defenseless Related Forms
de·fense′·lessly adverb
de·fense′·less·ness noun
defenseless Synonyms
defenseless Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- animal: Whilst you prey on defenseless animals, you leave endless suffering in your wake!
- people: Right now we watch high-tech weapons slaughter the defenseless people of Iraq.
- civilian: We will not back down in the face of attacks, either on us or on defenseless civilians.
- population: The use of terror on the defenseless civilian population was neither an isolated incident nor a few soldiers acting illegally.
- space: Digital intruders are piercing defenseless air space at corporations, public Wi-Fi hot spots and homes to gain illegal entry to computers.
- girl: I would like to know why you did what you did to three defenseless, helpless young girls.
Modifying Another Word
- virtually: He experienced the full horror of the Israeli rocket, torpedo and machine gun attacks on the virtually defenseless vessel.
- completely: Such attacks have been witnessed in emergency rooms, where doctors were completely defenseless to the oncoming arrest and unable to resuscitate the patient.
- not: We are not defenseless, and there are many significant efforts underway to respond to the cyber threat.
Used with adjective complement
Browse dictionary entries near defenseless
- ‹ defense mechanism
- ‹ Defense Intelligence Agency
- ‹ Defense Data Network
- ‹ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- ‹ Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Network
- ‹ defense
- ‹ defenestration
- ‹ Defender of the Faith
- ‹ defender
- ‹ defended
- defenseman ›
- defensible ›
- defensive ›
- defensive securities ›
- defensively ›
- defer ›
- deference ›
- deferent ›
- deferential ›
- deferment ›

