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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Aga said: "I think it's very helpful to actually see what the surgeon is talking about."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

What is most helpful to sustaining those expansionary periods now and in the future?

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Avello concludes, "Everything that we're doing is only important and helpful if we talk about it."

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2026

Bank say the 10-year Treasury yield has remained a helpful measure of the broader bond backdrop.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

“Having the designer watches is helpful, but this is the one I was saddest about losing,” he says.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller