rescueless

English

Etymology

From rescue +‎ -less.

Adjective

rescueless (comparative more rescueless, superlative most rescueless)

1. Without rescue or release.
   • 2009, Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go, page 130:

     Nobody answeres the phone at Blood Island, so us Negresses are consigned to sit rescueless amid the smell of squandered blood, bowel movements, and disinfectant in a hospital my mother refused to give birth in and Eddie refused to die in.

   • 2014, Thomas Keneally, Woman of the Inner Sea:

     Ominipotent Gus who had led her out of the floods and rescued the beasts! Rescueless himself, he tumbled to the boards.

   • 2016, Jean McNeil, Ice Diaries: A Memoir:

     Did I want to put myself in a rescueless place to see how I would respond?