The actions she took were too careless, and she was left defenseless.
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Defenseless
Synonyms for "defenseless" (48 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Adjective(1 words)
Adverb(2 words)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (24)
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2 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- أَعْزَل adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Belarusian
1 entries- безабаро́нны adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Bulgarian
1 entries- беззащи́тен adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Catalan
1 entries- indefens adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Czech
1 entries- bezbranný adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Dutch
1 entries- weerloos adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Finnish
1 entries- puolustuskyvytön adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
French
1 entries- sans défense adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Galician
1 entries- indefenso adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Georgian
2 entries- დაუცველი adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
- მოწყვლადი adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
German
2 entries- schutzlos adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
- wehrlos adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Hindi
1 entries- अरक्षित adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Hungarian
1 entries- védtelen adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Māori
2 entries- parekore adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
- wawaukore adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Polish
3 entries- bezbronny adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
- bezradny adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
- bezsilny adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Portuguese
2 entries- indefenso adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
- indefeso adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Russian
1 entries- беззащи́тный adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Spanish
2 entries- desamparado adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
- indefenso adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Swedish
1 entries- försvarslös adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Turkish
2 entries- korumasız adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
- savunmasız adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Ukrainian
2 entries- безза́хисний adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
- беззахи́сний adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Vietnamese
2 entries- không được bảo vệ adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
- không được phòng thủ adj (lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
We are defenseless.
Source: tatoeba (1837951)
We're defenseless.
Source: tatoeba (2107339)
You're defenseless.
Source: tatoeba (2202737)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.