Defenceless Synonyms

Lacking weapons for self-defense
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. defenseless
Without defense
(Adverb)
Synonyms:
  1. defenseless
  2. defenselessly
  3. defencelessly

Words Related to Defenceless

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. helpless
  2. brutalise
  3. weaponless
  4. terror-stricken

Defenceless Sentence Examples

  • The defenceless condition of these birds led to their extinction after the island was colonized.

  • Again, in 1880, the city was bombarded by the Chileans, though it was almost defenceless, and fell into the possession of the invaders after the capture of Lima in the following year.

  • Here they lived like little princes, surrounded by thousands of retainers, whom they kept for show alone, making no attempt to organize and discipline this excellent military material for the defence of their defenceless country.

  • Coleoptera (beetles) supply instances of mimicry of ants, wasps and Ichneumonids, and some defenceless forms of this order mimic others that are protected.

  • From this time onwards they saw that they could no longer trust to defenceless factories.

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