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defenceless has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
lacking weapons for self-defense
without defense
“the child was standing in the middle of the crossfire, defenselessly”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for defenceless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.