helpful

[help-fuhl] / ˈhɛlp fəl /

ADJECTIVE

beneficial, beneficent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accessible advantageous applicable conducive constructive convenient cooperative crucial essential favorable friendly important invaluable practical productive profitable significant suitable supportive sympathetic timely useful valuable

WEAK

accommodating benevolent bettering caring considerate contributive effectual efficacious fortunate good for improving instrumental kind neighborly operative pragmatic serendipitous serviceable symbiotic usable utilitarian

Antonyms

STRONGEST

cold cool disagreeable hindering hurting inappropriate inessential injurious inopportune insignificant minor nonessential trivial unfavorable unfriendly unhelpful unimportant unsociable unsuitable useless worthless

WEAK

disadvantageous harmful hurtful unconstructive

Example Sentences

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The experience that tech workers had of seeing AI go from a "helpful tool" to something that "does my job better than I do" will ripple through the service sector, Shumer predicted.

From Barron's

And then we explain why it’s going to be helpful and what it takes in terms of structural reforms.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sometimes it comes from clinicians’ wish to be helpful, agreeable or liked.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Ring provides relevant context about when sharing may be helpful—but the decision remains firmly in the customer’s hands, not ours.”

From Salon

“In some cases, it’s been really helpful to investigators when people see things they don’t see or notice a pattern of some sort.”

From Los Angeles Times

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