helplessness

/ˈhɛlpləsnəs/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈhɛlpləsnəs/

helplessness

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

hel - ples - sness -> helplessness

Myanmar meaning

(n) အားကိုးရာမဲ့ဖြစ်ခြင်း။

Full entry

help /help/ v

၁။ ~ (sb) (with sth ) ကူညီသည်။ ကူမသည်။ Help! I'm stuck. ❍ Can I help with the washing-up? ❍Your advice helped (me) a lot. ❍ We must all help each other. ❍ A man is helping the police with their enquiries. ❍ Please help me up/ down the stairs with this heavy case (ie help me to carry it up/down). ❍Would it help you to know (ie if I told you) that…? ❍ This charity aims to help people (to) help themselves. ဤလှူဒါန်းငွေဖြင့် ကိုယ်ထူကိုယ်ထ ရပ်တည်နိုင်ရေးကို အကူအညီပြုရန်ဖြစ်သည်။ ❍ I helped (him) (to) find his clothes.
၂။ ထောက်ကူသည်။ အကျိုးပြုသည်။ ကူညီသည်။ ပံ့ပိုးသည်။ This latest development doesn't exactly help (matters). ❍ drugs that help to take away pain. ❍ (without to ) stiffer measures to help fight terrorism.
၃။ (က) ~ oneself / sb (to sth) မိမိဘာသာမိမိ သုံးဆောင်၊ စားသောက် သည်။ Help yourself (to a cigarette). ❍ May I help you to some more meat? (ခ) ~ oneself to sth ကြိုက်သလို။ စိတ်တိုင်းကျ။ He's been helping himself to my stationery.
n
၁။ [U] ကူညီခြင်း။ အကူအညီ။ Thank you for all your help. ❍ Can I be of (any) help to you? ❍ The map wasn't much help. ❍ She came to our help (ie helped us).
၂။ [sing] a~ (to sb) အကူအညီ။ ကူဖော်လောင်ဖက်။ She was more of a hindrance than a help (to me). ❍ Your advice was a great help. ❍ (ironic ) You're a great help (ie no help at all), I must say!
၃။ [C] အခစား။ အခိုင်းအစေ။ အိမ်စေ။ အိမ်ဖော်။ The help hasn't come this morning. See also HOME-HELP
❏ can/ could (not) help (doing) sth [IDM ] တတ်နိုင် သည်။ It can't / couldn't be helped (ie There was no way of avoiding it and we must accept that). ❍ Can I help it (ie Is it my fault) if people don't read the instructions? ❍ He can't help having big ears. ❍ I wouldn't live there—well, not if I could help it. ❍ We can't help thinking he's still alive. ❍ She burst out laughing—she couldn't help it/ herself (ie could not stop herself). ❍ She never does more work than she can help (ie She does as little as possible).
❏ God/ Heaven help sb [IDM ] ဘုရားသခင်ကယ်တော်မူပါ။ God help you (ie You will be in trouble) if the teacher finds out!
❏ helper n အကူညီပေးသူ။ အကူအညီ။ အကူ။
❏ helpful /-fl/ adj ~ (to sb ) ကူညီဖော်ရသော။ အသုံးကျသော။ a helpful person/ suggestion/ map ❍ He's always very helpful to his mother. helpfully /-fǝli/ adv helpfulness n [U]
❏ helping n တစ်ခါပြင်။ တစ်ပွဲ။ have/ take a second helping ❍ She had two generous helpings of pie.
❏ a helping hand [IDM ] ကူညီမှု။ အကူအညီ။ give/lend (sb) a helping hand.
❏ helpless adj
၁။ ကိုယ့်ဘာသာကိုယ် မလုပ်နိုင်သော။ ကိုယ်ထူ ကိုယ်ထ မလုပ်နိုင်သော။ a helpless baby/ invalid/ drunkard ❍ be helpless with laughter မဟန်နိုင်လောက်အောင် ရယ်ရလွန်းသည်။
၂။ ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့သော။ Without weapons we are helpless. helplessly adv helplessness n [U]
❏ help sb off/ on with sth [PHRV ] (ကုတ်အကျႌ) ချွတ်ပေး သည်၊ ဝတ်ပေးသည်။ Can I help you on with your coat?
❏ help (sb) out [PHRV ] ကူညီသည်။ He's always willing to help (us) out when we're short of staff.
❏ so help me (God) [IDM ] ငါကျိန်ပြောပါတယ်။ ဘုရား စူးရပါစေရဲ့။ I never stole the money, so help me (I didn't)!
❏ there is no help for it [IDM ] မတတ်နိုင်တော့ဘူး။

More examples

If you are finding that difficult, I could help you.
Mary was anxious to help.
[help someone (to) do something] : Can you help me find my glasses?
[help someone with something] : Her brother offered to help her with her homework.
[help someone through something] : They helped me through a very difficult time.
I’ll help you to the door.
Can I help you off with your coat (=help you to take it off)?
[help someone to something] : Can I help you to more vegetables?
[help yourself to something] : Help yourselves to more wine.
More police officers on the streets would help.
Organic farming methods help the environment.
[help (to) do something] : The new measure will help boost trade.
We hope this helps to clarify the situation.
[help towards] : Further study will help towards a better understanding of the problem.

Synonyms

assist, aid, lend a hand, help out, facilitate, rally round, be of assistance, abet, abettor, accommodate, adjutant, advantage, advice, advocate, aide, alleviate, ally, ameliorate, amend, ancilla, assistance, assistant, attend, attendant, auxiliary, avail, avoid, back, ballyhoo, balm, be of use, befriend, benefit, better, bolster, boost, buck up, cheer, collaborator, colleague, comfort, cooperate, cooperation, corrective, cure, deputy, do a favor, do a service, do one's part, doctor, dodge, domestic, ease, employee, encourage, endorse, evade, further, go to bat for, go with, guidance, hand, heal, helper, helping hand, helpmate, hype, improve, intercede, lift, maintain, maintenance, mate, meliorate, mitigate, nourish, nourishment, open doors, palliate, partner, patronize, plug, prevent, promote, prop, puff, push, refrain from, relief, relieve, remedy, representative, restore, revive, right-hand person, root for, sanction, save, second, see through, servant, serve, service, stand by, stick up for, stimulate, stop, stump for, subsidiary, succor, support, supporter, sustain, sustenance, take under one's wing, treat, uphold, use, utility, work for, worker

Antonyms

accuse, antagonist, blame, block, blockage, boss, check, conceal, condemn, counteract, counteraction, decrease, delay, depress, destroy, disapprove, discourage, disease, dissuade, encumbrance, enemy, frustrate, halt, handicap, harm, hide, hinder, hindrance, hurt, ignore, impede, increase, injure, injury, management, manager, neglect, obstruct, obstruction, opponent, oppose, ownership, prevent, prevention, protest, refuse, stop, undermine, worsen